POLS 101 Week 3 Discussion 2

POLS 101 Week 3 Discussion 2 | Ivy Tech Community College

MO3 Polling and Ideology Project - Submission 

Purpose

You learned in the media and internet literacy assignment how to SIFT. Now you will learn how to understand a poll and look for bias in them. Public opinion polls are often used by the President and Congress to determine courses of action with policies that they support. They use them as well on the campaign trail. When you start paying attention to polls you will find some will vary widely and yet be on the same topic such as internal versus public data polling (Links to an external site.). 

One of the major areas polled deals with political ideology. This is why you will also learn about yourself and your ideology by taking a political ideology quiz and then using the textbook to discuss the agents of socialization in your life that you believe shaped your ideology. 

Objectives Assignment Meets

Describe and illustrate agents of socialization that have influenced your life.

Evaluate a public opinion poll for reliability using analysis techniques.

Instructions

Complete the following steps:

·         Click here for the Polling Analysis assignment on Connect. 

·         Take the Pew Research Center Ideology Test (Links to an external site.). You may feel as if you are having to pick between two different positions in which you do not like either. This is only an exercise that helps to show you the spectrum on which you reside. You may not fit into what the results say you should as it is only an inventory exercise. Use your agreements and disagreements with the quiz and your placement to help fuel your answers to the assignment. 

·         Click here to take the ideology quiz

·         In a word document answer the following questions:

1.    Describe what ideology you were categorized into. 

2.    Do you agree or disagree with the categorization?

3.    What agents of socialization do you believe have shaped you? 

4.    Why do you think they have shaped you?

5.    How do you think the generalizations you saw in the categories of answers might effect the results of political ideology polling?