Secular/ Rational and these are culture values. The traditional is a society that value religion highly, they emphasize on the deference on authority, they also value family as the core of a social structure, and they reject the idea of divorce, abortion, euthanasia, and suicide. When it comes to secular/ rational it is the total opposite because they have less emphasis on religion, authority, family and a greater acceptance of divorce, abortion, euthanasia. In the same fashion, when it comes to the United States and seeing the location of whether it is on the left (traditional value) or on the right (secular/rational). There are shifts within 2010-2014 and in the Inglehart-Welzel value map it shows that in 2010 that the United States was located on the top of the English Speaking and it is half way of the map on the left side close to 0.0 which would be the middle of traditional and secular/rational. Yet, I believe that it was more secular/rational in 2010 because in society we aren’t on traditional scale like in 1830s. Now, continuing with the four year expand on whether the United State is Traditional or secular, it stayed on the far top meaning the United States had not change its values in political culture. However, as mentioned above the United State falls about the middle vertically, which indicates that religion and traditional values are less important for …show more content…
This also begins in an early childhood and continues throughout life and this has a huge influence whether the mindset or beliefs are changed over years. Now, there are agents of socialization such as family, education and peers which indicates the concept of political socialization. When it comes to family, this is the most important or the influence of parents. Then education deals with the school and the teacher, the scholars in a field of study (these are personal factors that all influence people’s political values) . After that comes peers and this is the peer acceptance and friendships. However, the United States always stresses on teaching of democracy and the capitalist values too. These help people process their ideas about politics which is the definition of political socialization. For example, in the United States there are two parties the democrats and the republicans and a person can say they are a lifelong democrat and this is caused since their family were grown as a democrat, therefore, that person will consider their self as a lifelong democrat. Yet, even if that person does not take an affiliation about their parent’s words then they will take up to an older sibling which is a system of general political traditions and