https://padlet.com/shriya_rawal/uded4hvlpusr en-us 2019-05-06 16:52:48 UTC 2019-05-06 17:05:25 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f34f.png shriya_rawal https://padlet.com/shriya_rawal/uded4hvlpusr/wish/357284271 Political Socialization - A process by which individuals learn their political beliefs and attitudes from family, school, friends, coworkers, and other sources.

• Individuals learn their political beliefs and attitudes through a complex process called political socialization. This process begins early in life, continues throughout adulthood, and has a major influence on opinion formation.

Family and Home Influence

• Political socialization begins within the family. Children learn many of their early political opinions from their parents. 

Schools and Peer Groups

• School also plays an important part in the political socialization process. In the United States, all students learn about their nation, its history, and its political system. Civi

Personal Experiences

• Individuals’ personal experiences—the way they interact with the political and economic systems—also influence their political views. Because economic and social statuses affect these experiences, they play a role in political socialization. 

The Mass Media

• The Internet, television, radio, newspapers, magazines, movies, and books—the mass media—play an important role in political socialization. Both the Internet and television provide political information and images that can directly influence political attitudes.

Other Influences

• Government leaders, interest groups, and religious organizations also play important roles in political socialization. The president especially has a tremendous influence on people’s opinions. 
• The news media provides almost continuous reports on the president’s activities and policy proposals. The president also tries to reach the American people directly through e-mail and social networking communications.

Non Scientific Methods

• Party organizations have long been a reliable source of information about public opinion. In the past, party officials were in close touch with voters in their hometowns, cities, counties, and states. 
• Local party leaders could provide information to national leaders. Interest groups, too, provide elected officials with an easy way to find out about the opinions of concerned citizens. 
• The mass media often reflect public attitudes fairly well because they speak to a broad audience. Newspapers, magazines, and television and radio programs reflect the interests of the public. 
• Another method of gauging opinion is the straw poll. This is an unscientific attempt to measure public opinion
• Finally, elected officials and their staff keep track of opinions about current issues expressed on political websites and blogs, as well as social networking sites.
  
  

Scientific Polling

• Since it is not possible to actually interview every person in Texas or every woman in the United States, pollsters question a representative sample, a small group of people who are typical of that universe.
• Telephone interviews are used in many national polls. To create a random sample, pollsters use random digit dialing: They select an area code and the first three local digits. Then a computer randomly chooses and dials the last four digits. 

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