political socialization

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics;      202 words ......process by which people come to acquire political attitudes and values. Socialization in childhood...necessarily a reliable guide to voting, or political attitudes. Sex and ethnicity are genetically determined; political attitudes are not.

Abbas calls on Hamas to change political attitudes

Xinhua News Agency;  March 8, 2006 ;     304 words ...Abbas calls on Hamas to change political attitudes RAMALLAH, March 8 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian...called on Hamas to change its current political attitudes. "There has to be a change in Hamas...Hamas can't change its views and political attitudes immediately. "It should be gradual...

Authoritarians by nature: Mexican private bankers and democracy

Canadian Journal of Latin American & Caribbean Studies;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......literature generally contends that the political attitudes and behaviour of domestic big business...number of studies dealing with the political attitudes of domestic economic elites in Latin...industrialists. Research on the topic of the political attitudes of both segments of the ...

Study: leanings to red or blue might be in our blood.(Front)

The Virginian Pilot;  September 19, 2008 ;     558 words ......a biological basis for people's political attitudes. They found to their surprise that...education, all of which can affect political attitudes. Kevin Smith, a professor of political...environmental factors determine political attitudes. Recent studies have found that...

Public Opinion and Political Change in China

The China Journal;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......University in 1999. To study people's political attitudes and behavior at different stages...impact of media control on people's political attitudes and political behavior. Surprisingly...impact media control has on people's political attitudes and behavior. It is one thing to...

DOES MORAL REASONING REPRESENT SOCIOMORAL STRUCTURE OR POLITICAL IDEOLOGY?...

Social Behavior and Personality;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......relations between moral reasoning and political attitudes were examined in a representative...latter study both moral reasoning and political attitudes were related to the evaluation of...Defining Issues Test (Rest. 1979a). Political attitudes were measured using 10 Likert-type...

Born to party New research suggests that our basic political attitudes -...

The Boston Globe;  November 2, 2008 ;     700+ words ......scientists are now discovering that our political attitudes have deep roots in our biology...biological makeup contributes to our political attitudes." The work of Smith and his colleagues...likely than fraternal twins to share political attitudes on busing, foreign aid, school prayer

Measure for Measure: The Relationship Between Different Broadcast Types,...

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......television use was positively related to political attitudes, cognitions, and behaviors. Several...between broadcast media use and political attitudes, behaviors, and cognitions depends...different broadcast measures on political attitudes, behaviors, and cognitions. This...

Long before Columbus, West Africans traded with the Americas

New African;  October 1, 2004 ;     477 words ......pyramids built for West African kings at Kukia in pre-Islamic Ancient Ghana and their counterparts in Nubia, Egypt and Meso-America...far easier to build on a grander scale. When the region of Ancient Ghana and Mauritania was closely examined, evidence of large prehistoric...

Exposure to national flag brings moderation of political attitudes

The Hindustan Times;  December 28, 2007 ;     374 words ......a subliminal image of the national flag moderates such political attitudes. The study, led by psychologist Ran Hassin at the Hebrew...subliminal presentation of a national symbol affects not only political attitudes, but also voting intentions and actual voting in general...

In related news

The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  October 30, 2004 ;     34 words ...On our Religion page this week, we'll tell how how Christians' beliefs influence political attitudes. Our Religion page is still on Saturday, but starting this weekend it is in the Weekend Family section. TODAY ON PAGE F7

Political attitudes may be all in head.

Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL);  September 10, 2007 ;     700+ words ......students for a simple experiment. The subjects reported their political attitudes confidentially on a scale from -5 (extremely liberal...Pollock saw another benefit to Amodio's findings: If political attitudes are tied to neurophysiology, he said, it would make bashing...

Political attitudes will have to change; CLA view.(Features)

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  August 5, 2008 ;     337 words ......so, and it will be essential to deploy the full range of agricultural and bio-technologies if demand is to be met. Some political attitudes here and in the EUwill have to change. One thing is certain: Defra's once-expressed view that food availability isn't...

U. Nebraska professor's work published in political science journal

University Wire;  July 5, 2005 ;     476 words ......genes play an important role in political attitudes. "It is unfortunate," Hibbing said...Virginia and Australia concerning their political attitudes, the political scientists concluded...genes are the only things to decide political attitudes but it influences more than we had...

Can Art Be Apolitical?

The Washington Post;  July 25, 1990 ;     508 words ......refer particularly to his discussion of the support of "political attitudes" in art through the National Endowment for the Arts...Congress to deny funding to any art involving "expression of political attitudes." I don't know the world in which Mr. Yardley lives, but...