Examples of Political Influence in the following topics:
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- The higher one's social class, the higher their levels of political participation and political influence.
- Educational attainment, an indicator of social class, can predict political participation.
- Social class impacts one's level of political participation and political influence.
- Political influence refers to the extent to which one's political participation achieves its desired results.
- This trend means that middle and upper class individuals have greater political participation and greater political influence than those in lower positions.
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- Political parties seek to influence government policy by nominating select candidates to hold seats in political offices.
- Typically, a political party is a political organization seeking to influence government policy by nominating its own select candidates to hold seats in political office, via the process of electoral campaigning.
- The type of electoral system is a major factor in determining the type of party political system.
- In a nonpartisan system, no official political parties exist, sometimes due to legal restrictions on political parties.
- Political parties, still called factions by some, are lobbied vigorously by organizations, businesses and special interest groups such as trades unions.
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- Although nothing in U.S. law requires it, in practice, the political system is dominated by political parties.
- Therefore, much of U.S. politics boils down to party politics.
- Individual citizens are not the only players in U.S. politics.
- Although individual citizens are the only ones who can cast votes, special interest groups and lobbyists may influence elections and law-making with money and other resources.
- The media also play an important role in politics by influencing public sentiment and acting as an information filter.
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- Age is an important factor in U.S. politics because there is a correlation between age and rates of political participation and because it is a determining factor in the issues people care about.
- As a result, older individuals in the U.S. are seen as having more political power than younger people.
- Given that there is a correlation between age and the issues relevant to those populations, some organizations have capitalized on these relationships in order to push political agendas.
- Although they tend to be less organized and participate in lower numbers, young people also influence U.S. politics.
- Obama's campaign used the Internet to rally supporters and make his policies known, and the campaign's use of the Internet targeted 18- to 29-year-olds, the age group most reliant on new media for political information.
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- Further, researchers have shown that biological (and to a lesser extent self-perceived or social) age often heavily influences the political stances, practices, and beliefs of sexual and gender minorities with older LGBTIQA people often mirroring "don't ask don't tell" approaches of the past, middle-aged LGBTIQA people often adopting a "politics of respectability" (e.g., seek to be as normal as possible through inclusion into marital, religious, and familial heterosexual institutions), and younger LGBTIQA people typically promoting more radical / Queer / Feminist / Social Justice approaches to sexual politics (see also heteronormativity and LGBTQIA movement histories for further elaboration on the relationship between historical context and sexual politics and for a basic introduction to some sexual political history).
- Finally, recent reveals similar influences upon sexual and gender politics among heterosexual respondents, but to date, little systematic research has explored this topic.
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- Social change is influenced by random as well as systematic factors, such as government, available resources, and natural environment.
- Political Process Theory, sometimes also known as the Political Opportunity Theory,is an approach to social movements heavily influenced by political sociology.
- It argues that the success or failure of social movements is primarily affected by political opportunities.
- Political Process Theory argues that there are three vital components for movement formation: insurgent consciousness, organizational strength, and political opportunities.
- Finally, "political opportunity" refers to the receptivity or vulnerability of the existing political system to challenge.
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- Even groups we don't think of as political still practice politics.
- For example, a school sports team has its own politics.
- This is politics.
- " How social inequality between groups (class, race, gender, etc.) influences politics
- It holds the view that politics and decision making are located mostly in the framework of government, but many non-governmental groups use their resources to exert influence.
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- New York and London are examples of global cities that command vast political, economic, and cultural influence both domestically and internationally.
- Recent sociological work has argued that, with globalization, relevant political borders are changing.
- Instead, they may be more directly influenced by local, regional, or even international governmental bodies.
- Not only are global cities important economically, but they are also politically unique.
- In general, global cities tend to actively influence and participate in international effents and world affairs.
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- They argued that the political element of many voluntary organizations facilitates better awareness and a more informed citizenry, who make better voting choices, participate in politics, and hold government more accountable as a result.
- Putnam has argued that even non-political organizations in civil society are vital for democracy.
- The public sphere is an area in social life where individuals can come together to freely discuss and identify societal problems, and through that discussion influence political action.
- The study of the public sphere centers on the idea of participatory democracy, and how public opinion becomes political action.
- "Democratic governance rests on the capacity of and opportunity for citizens to engage in enlightened debate. " Much of the debate over the public sphere involves what is the basic theoretical structure of the public sphere, how information is deliberated in the public sphere, and what influence the public sphere has over society.
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- In any political system where voting is allowed, some people are more likely to vote than others.
- It is in teasing out the stratification of political participation and political power that the sociological imagination is particularly useful.
- Generally, racial and ethnic minorities are less likely to vote in elections and are also underrepresented in political positions, but these numbers are often influenced by ongoing attempts throughout American history to make voting harder (and at times impossible) for racial minorities.
- Racial and ethnic minorities are also less likely to hold political positions.
- Another way that political power is stratified is through income and education.