We Can Use Mass Media And Social Media

Most people are exposed to the same principals and agents of political socialization. Families spread values that support political authorities and can heavily contribute to children's initial political ideological views, or party preferences. Families influence political knowledge and identification depending on variables such as family demographics, life cycle, parenting style, parental level of political skepticism and frequency of political discussions. Demographics such as gender and age also attribute to political socialization. School is another agent of political socialization. Spending numerous years in school, children in the United States are taught and reinforced a view of the world that their text books tell them to trust. Through primary, secondary and high schools, students are taught key principles such as individual rights and property, personal responsibility and duty to their nation. Another is mass media. Mass media is not only a source of political information; it is an influence on political values and beliefs. Various media outlets, through news coverage and late-night programs, provide different partisan policy stances that are associated with political participation. Religions, beliefs, and practices play a role in political opinion formation and political participation. The perspective offered by religious institutions shape judgement regarding public policy, and political decision

I have not had much interest in politics until recently. Before last year, I did not care for anything related to politics; I thought that it was all boring and had little to no affect on me on a personal level. I am more interested in politics nowadays. I know better now that it does affect me and I should care about it. I had learned about the concepts of political socialization, party identification, political tolerance, political trust, political efficacy in government class and how they affect my political beliefs. My personal political belief has been shaped into what it is today and is still being shaped because of those six concepts.

Political socialization begins early on in life and is an ongoing process affecting individuals throughout. It is how people eventually identify personal beliefs and expectations in American politics. These political views can include our level of patriotism, faith in the democratic system, standards by which we hold governing bodies, and opinions regarding public policies. From the playground to the classroom, the office to the dinner table, much of our lives affect our political opinions. The most easily identified agents of this are family, schooling, peers, mass media, political parties and religious influences. Furthermore, these means indoctrinate us in the political society through four basic

Just as parents influence their children to learn a second language, I was raised to learn the language of politics. I soon became intrigued about our democracy and learned about our political system on the media, in school, and from my parents. After learning both sides of politics and obviously being influenced by my parents, I choose to be associated with the political right’s beliefs. To this day, I have strong opinions on immigration policies, the second amendment, healthcare, foreign policy, and many other issues. On the other hand, there is one issue that makes

Growing up, I was surrounded by a constant stream of information and discussion about current events. My father is a lawyer and is actively involved in the political community. The constant talk of government and community activism in my home had a major contribution on how I started to plan my future endeavors. The desire

I am going to be honest. Generally speaking, I have never been a very political person. When I was younger I didn’t care much about politics and up until a year or two ago the most I knew about politics was a basic idea of the ideas of each party, their symbols, that our president is a democrat, and that there’s a presidential election every four years. But, in the past year that has changed a lot. I turned eighteen, and eighteen is the year, the year we become adults, and the year us new adults gain the right to vote. Gaining this authority gives you a feeling that you don’t quite get when you get your license, or your first job at sixteen. So imagine my initial disappointment when the first election I get to vote in involves Donald Trump. But, as I have experienced the campaign in the past year, that disappointment dissolved and I knew I wanted to share what I picked up on.

Just because we, personally can’t vote on it yet doesn’t mean that we can’t change others opinions that can vote. If we follow things that are happening in our community and we talk about it or debate it we might be able to enlighten some people with information that they weren’t privy to before. This, in fact, just might change their minds on certain things, which in turn could change how they vote, or who they vote for. “Let us not be afraid to help each other—let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President, Senators, Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.”

As young adults, we have a tendency to not get involved with politics because we are scared for standing up for our rights, other’s criticism, and overall, do not feel as if there is a leader worth voting for. Our

By turning eighteen along with most of my peers, we are now legally adults and have the right to speak our minds when it comes to politics. As adults, by exercising

What about children? As a 15 year old girl, I have always been told that my opinions don’t matter because I’m too young to have one. When I tried to bring up this essay to my mother she told me the same thing, that lowering the voting age is ridiculous because those opinions don’t matter, that my opinion doesn’t matter, and that my opinion is wrong. How can an opinion be wrong? That’s kind of the definition of an opinion, it can’t be wrong. My opinion DOES matter, your opinion DOES matter, everyone’s opinion matters! The hypocritical part is that when we try to make our voices heard, adults tell us to “stop tweeting about it and actually try to make a change”, but when we do try and make a change our voices are silenced because we’re too young to have a voice. To directly quote my mother’s words to me “Whatever Hannah, just go tweet about it, MAYBE you’ll be heard” see the hypocrisy? The young people who can vote don’t because they’ve been trained that their opinions don’t mean

the process of political socialization and its influences on public opinion, we will see that more

A significant decline in political participation is apparent in the younger generations of this country. As a result of this lack of involvement, the future of young Americans is jeopardized if they fail to make their voices heard and utilize the influence they have on their government. If the youth do not express their ideas and goals that should be accomplished by society, consequentially, the leaders of this country will strive for goals whose are not those of the people. According to the memorable and historical leader, Thomas Jefferson," Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone.The government was intended to serve the people. This cannot be accomplished if the people choose not to vote. However, there

My life experiences and conversations gave me an overall look on what people thought about Civics, the government, and how as citizens look at the system we live by. I have talked to men and women from my family and many that aren't. Most didn't think it was important, yet stayed updated on all the news. Others thought that politics, government, anything related was a bad influence and don't want to get involved. Nevertheless, they had opinions and ideas about topics and events related to politics. I have realized that some people want to learn, others can’t, and some don't

In this conversation, I stated that, “Ethically, we are responsible for some of the outcome in politics and that if we are not taking the time to write emails or share information to our representatives about our individual viewpoints as a voting member, we are doing an injustice”. Both of my sisters at the table agreed. They both stated that it is an important part as a citizen in our society to take part in the politics, if not getting super involved at different campaign locations for different elections, then just looking up the politicians on the ballot and deciding which politician shares the same values that you have and vote for them during

The effects of mass media and social media have changed the way people have experienced presidential campaigns in many ways. With the development of new technologies through the last hundred years many different ways of experiencing the campaigns have taken place. Newspapers, radio, television, internet and social media websites have changed the ways we all have experienced elections.