Essay #2: Political Ideology & Socialization
1. Based on the second chapter in the textbook, and based on the liberal/conservative definitions from the book, the PowerPoint and online, what do you consider your political ideology to be? Which “side” do you feel you lean more to? Are you a liberal or conservative, and in a classic or modern sense? Feel free to use the textbook as a source since it goes into detail about these labels and their definitions, but you can also use online sources including political quizzes.
2. Extreme Ideologies.Chapter 1 & 2 mention ideologies such as Socialism, Communism, Fascism, etc. Pick one of these and provide some analysis reflecting your opinion of that extreme ideology. Is there anything about these ideologies that interest you and affect your opinion, or are there flaws and problems that you disagree with? Do you know any examples of countries that may attempted to implemented these extremes? You want to express your views but also use sources to back up examples you may use
3. How do you think you were socialized politically? You can write this as narrative describing how you feel you first learned about and became opinionated about politics, whether there was a specific event that you feel most defined how you view politics today, but make sure that in this section you clearly explain in your writing how you feel at least TWO of the 6 “agents” of socialization have most affected your political opinions.
4. Lastly, wrap it up by giving your opinion as to whether you think ideology “helps” or “hurts” politics. Do you think ideology is important and relevant today? Why or why not? You can point out facts to explain your argument but you can also describe personal experiences.
Remember this has to follow APA guidelines with at least 4 pages & 4 sources (not counting the works cited page).
Essay #2 is due SUNDAY, March 13 by midnight
Ideology Quizzes Online (There are others besides these, but these tend to be popular. I suggest you take 3 or 5, so that if you 2 out of 3 leaning one way or 3 out of 5 leaning another way that’s what you use to write)
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/quiz/political-typology/ (Links to an external site.)
https://www.isidewith.com/political-quiz (Links to an external site.)
http://www.youthleadership.net/econgress/political_ideology_survey (Links to an external site.)
https://8values.github.io/ (Links to an external site.)
https://www.theadvocates.org/quiz/ (Links to an external site.)
https://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=what-is-your-political-ideology_1 (Links to an external site.)
https://www.vox.com/2015/9/10/9188517/political-bias
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