1. Political Socialization and Political Trust Dr. Brian William Smith

2. Learning Objectives  Evaluate how people develop political opinions and how this impacts their political behavior.

4. Republican Graph

5. AGENTS OF SOCIALIZATION

6. The Role of Peers  Often Reinforce our Parents views  We do not tend to discuss politics  Our friends often share our SES and values

7. What about Primary and Secondary Schools  Teach the status quo  Correlate with our parents  Ritualizes Nationalism

8. Off To College  The Percentage of people going to college continues to rise  College often correlates with parents SES

9. The College Effect

10. Awareness

11. Indoctrination

12. Work Peers  We work with people like us  They share our SES  Our views are unlikely to change

13. The Mass Media and Political Socialization  We Receive a lot of information  Not all of it sticks  Those who could learn the most, watch the least

14. Why the media is not the great agent of socialization  Selective Exposure  Selective Perception

15. Life as an Agent of Socialization  Life Cycle events  Generational Effects  Period Effects

16. PARTICIPATING IN THE SYSTEM The Goal of Socialization

17. Teach The Political Culture  What are the Core Beliefs of America? Freedom Equality

18. Political Tolerance: Support for the Abstract

19. Pluralistic Intolerance

20. Figure 6.1 Question: “In order to curb terrorism in this country, do you think it will be necessary for the average person to give up some civil liberties, or not?”

21. Pluralistic Intolerance II

22. POLITICAL TRUST We Do not Like our Government

23. Trust the Federal Government?

24. Waste Taxes?

25. Crooked?

26. They Don’t Care

27. Pay Attention?

28. Why Does Government Keep Functioning?  We Support the basic Consensus of Government  We have not had the Big Problems