Description
● Consensus
○ People agree about things w/o having to think about it
● Areas of divisive opinion
○ Areas we disagree on
● Sociallization
○ Process of forming view, opinion, culture
○ 2 most important
■ Family
■ Education
○ Other things
■ Economics
■ Religion (except for those who take it seriously,
then it’s of more importance0
■ Geography
■ Gender (gender gap)
■ Politics
■ Media
● Poll
○ Representative sample
■ Probability sampling (random)
■ Random digit dialing (pick area code and random
dial from there)
○ Sample size
■ 500+
○ Proper questions
● Bias
○ Social desirability bias
○ Selection bias (can’t do anything about)
○ Push polling
○ Bandwagon effect
Conservative vs. Liberal
Title
Means
Ends
Name
Old Right
law
virtue
Paleoconservatives or agrarians
Old Left
law
rights
Classical liberals
New Right
Any means
necessary
freedom
neoconservatives
New Left
Any means
necessary
equality
liberals
Don't forget about the age old question of How can i increase myelin growth?
New left
● Students for a democratic society (SDS)
● Columba university 1960
● Student afro. Society (SAS)
● Gym Crow protest
● Weather underground group
○ 720 people
○ Took control of (SDS)
○ Extremely violent (used bombs)
● No child left behind
Media
● Tv
● Thinking through the filter of the internet
● “Amusing ourselves to death” by Postman
○ 2 stages
■ Age of exposition
● Literacy Don't forget about the age old question of What are different techniques that we can use to encode information semantically?
Don't forget about the age old question of What distinguishes a social group from a social aggregate?
Don't forget about the age old question of What refers to the physical attractiveness stereotype?
● Long attention spans Don't forget about the age old question of What connects the pia mater to the dura mater?
Don't forget about the age old question of What is the cognitive approach to problem solving?
● Order
■ Age of show business
● Current age we live in