And, if students take the “ Political Typology Quiz,” they can discuss questions like, “Do you agree with the way the quiz aligned you to a group?” ISideWith Blue: The Political Typology.”) In the classroom, you can divide your class into groups, each assigned to report back on one of the typology groups. Blue’ in American politics, sorting voters into cohesive groups, based on their attitudes and values-not their partisan labels.” (For a more in-depth look, see the report “ Beyond Red vs. This resource from the Pew Research Center “looks beyond ‘Red vs. Click “Start a new community group” to create a closed group for your classroom. It offers a function to compare a group’s aggregate results to the general public’s results. Political Typology QuizĪ 23-question quiz created by the Pew Research Center that assesses which of eight political typologies respondents’ attitudes and values fall in.
The nonpartisan resources below can encourage students’ critical thinking about politics and help jumpstart a political discourse that doesn’t end when the bell rings. The quiz helps people identify their own connectedness (or lack of connectedness) to this class.In “ Polarized Classrooms,” Paula McAvoy offers a framework for civic education in an era of political polarization.īecause politics can be tricky to discuss in the classroom, teaching about ideology, partisanship and political polarization can reduce tensions students may have around political differences. He has presented himself as a sort of champion for what some have described as “ the unprotected.” The unprotected could include any people outside the elite subset of Americans (4-6 million) who pass our laws, create our art, and broadcast media, but more specifically it applies to the shrinking white working class that is being left behind. These factors, pundits speculate, have been the catalyst for Donald Trump’s surprising success, particularly in Rust Belt states. What is the point of such a quiz, you ask? For starters, aside from just being fun, the quiz helps us better understand the growing class divide in America, which is fueling the anxiety and discontent on display in the 2016 elections. Studies have consistently shown that the American middle class is shrinking. But middle class covers a wide variety of environments, and the degree to which people who grew up in the middle class seal themselves off from that world after they reach the new upper class also varies widely, which is reflected in the wide range of possible scores. Growing up in a middle-class neighborhood also scores points for you on several questions, and this too is reflected in the real-world experiences that people bring to their adult lives in the new upper class. Your present life may be completely encased in the bubble, but you brought a lot of experience into the bubble that will always be part of your understanding of the world. If you grew up in a working-class neighborhood, you are going to have a high score even if you are now an investment banker living on Park Avenue. The scoring of the archetypes reflects a few realities about socioeconomic background and the bubble. Murray offers an explanation on how scores are reached: PBS recently released a second version of Murray’s quiz, which readers can access here. The thesis was the crux of his 2012 book, “Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010.”
Charles Murray, libertarian and scholar at American Enterprise Institute, has argued for some time that the upper classes in American society are increasingly becoming disconnected from poor and working class whites.
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