Chapter 6: Political Identity: Culture, Race &

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Chapter 6: Political Identity: Culture, Race & Ethnicity & Gender OER materials provided with support from the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges (ASCCC) Open Educational Resources Initiative (OERI) Chapter Outline Section #6.1: Introduction to Political Identity Section #6.2: Culture Section #6.3: Race & Ethnicity Section #6.4: Gender Section #6.5: Comparative Case Study: Gender Gaps in India and Japan Section #6.1: Introduction to Political Identity 6.1 Introduction to Political Identity “Who am I?” “How do I want to be seen in the future?” Answers to these questions help individuals establish their sense of Identity. A person’s identity is developed from a combination of factors, including a person’s experiences, relationships, perception of the world, calculation of risk and threat in the world, as well as their observations and experience of societal mores, morals and values. Political identity refers to the labels and characteristics an individual chooses to associate with based on a multitude of factors including but not limited to, their perception of political ideologies, platforms and parties, as well as how they see themselves from national, racial, ethnic, linguistic, cultural and gender perspectives. 6.1 Introduction to Political Identity (Continued) One of the main reasons political scientists have begun focusing on political identity is because human attachment to these identities has been mobilized for/with political consequences. Political mobilization is defined as organized activities intended to motivate groups of participants to take political action on a particular issue. (Consider the 2010 Arab Spring or the Jan. 6th United States Capitol Attack). Image Text: A collage for Middle East & North African protests. Clockwise from top left: 2011 Egyptian revolution, Tunisian revolution, 2011 Yemeni uprising, 2011 Syrian uprising. (Source: OA collage for MENA protests. Clockwise from top left: 2011 Egyptian revolution, Tunisian revolution, 2011 Yemeni uprising, 2011 Syrian uprising., by HonorTheKing via Wikimedia Commons. is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. 6.1 Introduction to Political Identity (Continued 2) The Process of Political Socialization Society refers to a population which has organized itself based on shared ideas for how the world acts and should act through both formal and informal institutions. In living in a society, individuals become politically socialized. Political socialization is the process by which individuals perceive the political world around them, come to understand how society is organized, and how they see their own role in society based on these perceptions. Some aspects of identity tend to be fixed, and these can