Examples of civic in the following topics:
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- Public colonial elections were events in which all free white males were expected to participate in order to demonstrate proper civic pride.
- Thus, elections became the main forum in which men could profess political allegiances, publicly demonstrating their community civic pride.
- Attendance on election days also served as a means of civic education and communal reinforcement of the appropriate, expected behavior of young males.
- In this respect, the North American colonists differed from their European counterparts, the majority of whom were barred from civic participation.
- Describe the significance that voting had for civic identity and cohesion in the colonies
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- The American "language of liberty" refers to individuals' right to life, liberty and property, and the duty to participate in civic affairs.
- Therefore, Anglo-American colonies were extensive communal cultures, centered on the civic and political sphere.
- Participation in civic life— through festivals, commemorations, the militia, and court trials—was prevalent, and most colonial males (white and free) were expected to partake in some facet of public civic life.
- Instead, American colonial politics revolved around the notion of public civic life and responsibility, an ideology that included:
- Civic duty: citizens have the responsibility to understand and support the government, participate in elections, pay taxes, and perform military service.
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- Characteristic of the Anglo-American colonies was an extensive communal culture, centered on the civic and political sphere.
- Participation in civic life, through festivals, commemorations, the militia, and court trials were widely attended and most (White and free) colonial males were expected to partake in the public civic life in some manner or other.
- Public colonial elections were events in which all free White males were expected to participate in order to demonstrate proper civic pride.
- American colonial politics revolved around the notion of public civic life and responsibility, an ideology that included:
- Describe the central commitments of dominant civic ideology in the colonies
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- In this hypothesis, the independent (causal) variable is civic engagement and the dependent variables (or effects) are the qualities of government.
- All of these governments had similar institutions, but the regions had different traditions of civic engagement.
- Putnam's evidence supported his hypothesis: in the north, which had a stronger tradition of civic engagement, government was indeed more responsive and more democratic.
- All of these governments had similar institutions, but the regions had different traditions of civic engagement.
- Putnam's evidence supported his hypothesis: in the north, which had a stronger tradition of civic engaegment, government was indeed more responsive and more democratic.
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- Unlike the colonial mother state of Britain, Anglo-American colonial representative government was an intensely localized process where elections and participation in assemblies and court trials were a fundamental aspect of proper civic life.
- For instance, public colonial elections were events in which all free white males were expected to participate in order to demonstrate proper civic pride.
- American colonial politics revolved around the notion of public civic life and responsibility, an ideology that included:
- Civic duty: Citizens have the responsibility to understand and support the government, participate in elections, pay taxes, and perform military service.
- By the mid-18th century, these civic ideals had been enshrined in the American colonial political system as a fundamental foundation of political rights and liberties.
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- An example of a sociological theory is the work of Robert Putnam on the decline of civic engagement.
- Putnam found that Americans involvement in civic life (e.g., community organizations, clubs, voting, religious participation, etc.) has declined over the last 40 to 60 years.
- The more television people watch, the lower their involvement in civic life will be.
- In this case, the concepts are civic engagement and television watching.
- In the theory proposed above, the astute reader will notice that the theory includes two components: The data, in this case the findings that civic engagement has declined and TV watching has increased, and the proposed relationship, that the increase in television viewing has contributed to the decline in civic engagement.
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- Putman's work focused on the decline of civic engagement.
- Putnam found that Americans involvement in civic life (e.g., community organizations, clubs, voting, religious participation, etc. ) has declined over the last 40 to 60 years.
- The more television people watch, the lower their involvement in civic life will be.
- In this case, the concepts are civic engagement and television watching.
- In the theory above, the data showed that that civic engagement has declined and TV watching has increased.
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- The agora would also be surrounded by civic and religious buildings.
- The stoa served not only civic function but also a religious function due its function as an altar to the god.
- Additional stoae surrounded the Athenian Agora, and they were used to house commercial markets and courts for law and civics.
- Also near the two buildings was the civic building of the Strategeion, which was the private meeting room for the Strategoi of Athens.
- The Agora is where Athenian democracy thrived and where the citizens of the Athens were able to take part in daily religious and civic duties.
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- An example of a sociological theory is the work of Robert Putnam on the decline of civic engagement.
- Putnam found that Americans' involvement in civic life (e.g., community organizations, clubs, voting, religious participation, etc. ) has declined over the last 40 to 60 years.
- The more television people watch, the lower their involvement in civic life will be.
- In this case, the concepts are civic engagement and television watching.
- What's more, it is an explanation of one phenomenon with another: part of the reason why civic engagement has declined over the last several decades is because people are watching more television.
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- Voting may be seen as a civic right rather than a civic duty.
- Voting may be seen as a civic right rather than a civic duty.