Assignment
You will make an infographic either by hand or using piktochart or Canva (a free Internet app) that will explain how people acquire political ideology. Be creative and thorough; include pictures. Submit as a screenshot
Using Chapter 6-10 of O'Connor/Sabato or Unit 4 in AMSCO, you should familiarize yourself with a few concepts that relate to how you interact with the world politically. They are:
1) Political Socialization
a) Generational Events and lifecycle events
2) Party Identification/Political Ideology
3) Political Trust
4) Political Efficacy
5) Political Participation
Each section of your infographic should show your mastery of the concepts relating to political identity with personal examples.
A. Background work:
Select a person to interview. The person you interview will be anonymous throughout the project. They should take the following political typology quizzes to assist you in completing their political profile.
1) Pew Center for the People and the Press's Political Typology Quiz.
2) ISideWith Presidential Candidate Quiz.
3) Political Compass Test.
4) Pew Center for the People and Press Trust in Government Dataset.
Required sections on infographic. Answer two questions for each section in five sentences with images to support.
B. Political Socialization: Describe their political socialization.
1) Which two agents of political socialization are the most influential on their political psyche?
2) What is their first political memory?
3) How do generational or lifecycle events impact their political socialization?
4) How does their own political socialization compare to the average American citizen (the norm)?
C. Party Identification/Political Ideology: Identify their political ideology and party affiliation.
1) What are the most important political issues to them in their party's platform?
2) How strong do you think their political party identification is and do you think it will remain consistent as they age? Why?
3) What percentage of Americans have a similar ideology?
D. Political Trust: Evaluate their level of trust in political institutions, politicians and policies.
1) What influences their level of trust in the government?
2) What has influenced their level of political trust?
3) Using polling data on trust in government (look at Pew Center research), compare them to other Americans.
E. Political Efficacy: Describe their level of political efficacy.
1) What issues of economics, history, or politics are critical to influencing their political efficacy?
2) How does their political efficacy affect their participation?
F. Political Participation:
1) How politically active do they anticipate themselves being over the next ten years? Why?
2) How does their anticipated level of participation compare to the Average American (the norm)?