Week 5 Discussion: Learning politics

Week 5 Discussion: Learning politics

Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:

• Textbook: Chapter 6, 10
• Lesson
• Additional scholarly sources you identify through your own research

Initial Post Instructions
Think about conversations around politics when you were in primary school (around age 10). What were some of the ways you learned about the political establishment through family members and friends? How were you politically socialized as a child? Use evidence (cite sources) to support your response from assigned readings or online lessons, and at least one outside scholarly source.

Solution:

Political socialization has been regarded as the process by which individuals learn as well as frequently internalize a political lens through framing their perceptions in regards to how power is arranged together with how the world around them is (Quintelier, 2015).  These perceptions, in turn, help in sharing and defining individuals’ definitions when it comes to who they are and how they should behave in the political and economic institutions within their setting. Additionally, as argued by (Magstadt, 2017), political socialization typically encompasses the manner in which people in society acquire values and opinions that shape their political ideology and stance.   When I was around 10 years, I would say that I was politically socialized. Precisely, at that time, the president of the United States of Bill Clinton,…Please click