WEEK 5 - VALUES AND IDEOLOGY

values

stable and enduring standards about how the world should work

egalitarianism

belief that all citizens should be equal regardless of their personal characteristics

individualism

belief that citizens should be able to get ahead by virtue of their hard work

moral traditionalism

underlying predispositions on traditional family and social organizations (nuclear, heteronormative)

populism

seeing the primary axis of political conflict as between a virtuous citizenry and corrupt elite

post-materialism thesis

focus on autonomy and self-expression over economic and physical security

scarcity hypothesis

when scarcity prevails, people will be concerned principally with economic and physical security

socialization hypothesis

values are shaped in adolescence

ideology

an interrelated set of attitudes and policy beliefs about the proper goals of society and how they should be achieved

values vs ideology

values are intuitive orientations about how society should work, ideology is a configuration of ideas that are bound together by constraint

constraint

ability to connect beliefs together in broader network

your belief on one policy constrains your belief on another

symbolic ideology

people are more likely to identify themselves in ideological terms, doesn’t necessarily conform to people’s beliefs in specific policies

ideological consistency

citizens are becoming more consistently left or right in their policy attitudes

ideological extremity

citizens are becoming increasingly extreme in their ideological and policy beliefs

partisan polarization

partisan groups are becoming increasingly dissimilar in their ideology and policy beliefs