This report examines whether the substance and tone of national political discourse during the first four months of the Trump administration affected U.S. public high school students. Throughout his campaign and in his presidency to date, Donald Trump has addressed a number of "hot-button" topics that call into question the status or…

Young citizens growing up in different societies experience multiple socialization processes that help to shape their values and attitudes toward the political life of their societies. In this cross-national study, researchers asked students directly about their views of what "good" citizens do, how they saw themselves participating in…

The author examines the influence of peer groups on the formation of young people's political orientations and predispositions toward political behavior. Analysis of the findings leads to conclusions about the existence of a "teen culture" in the Soviet Union and the socializing capability of the politically-inspired youth organizations.…

Using data collected from a random sample of students at a large Eastern university, the relationship of various socio-political factors to students attitudes toward and participation in protest activity is explored. Specifically addressed is the question - Do such factors influence activist-prone youth or youth who may be drawn into protest…

Examines the attitudes of Irish secondary school students toward political parties and the influence of the parties on the students. Results showed high student awareness of party differences, parental disposition to be an important influence, and party attitude to be an important influence on certain issues. (Author/CK)

The author uses a national sample of high school seniors and utilizes the school as the unit of analysis to study the effects of family background and school characteristics on political orientation. The results indicated parental education to be the most consistent predictor. (DE)

Political socialization and political ideology as sources of educational discontent are analyzed among a national sample of 1,811 academically successful, college-bound high school seniors. The findings indicate a substantial level of student dissatisfaction primarily caused by student alienation and formal curriculum. (Author/DE)

The impact and conditions under which student community involvement influences students' attitudes of political trust, political efficacy, and citizenship obligation are examined. (Author/DE)

These two papers summarize a portion of a wide-ranging survey, conducted in Memphis, of children's political attitudes and knowledge. Inconclusive data on prime influences in the process of political socialization and a lack of data on lower income, rural, Southern, black children suggested the scope of the research. The students sampled were in…

Studies on the effects of schooling on the political socialization of American youth are reviewed. School-level and classroom-level attributes are related to four political socialization outcomes: political knowledge; political attitudes and values; attitudes toward political participation; and participation in political or quasi-political…

This paper describes the dimensions of student political participation during the period of the 1970 election, determines the relationship between participation and certain sociological variables, assesses the impact of a schedules recess from Pittsburgh University for participation, and makes some speculations about the potential political impact…

The impact of social and political events on the development of political attitudes in children is examined. Political learning is seen as an invariant sequence of developmental stages dependent upon physical and intellectual growth, and current events. The data consist of interviews with children at the third through the ninth grade levels. The…

The current political conflict over school policy making is raised as a source of political learning for the young. It is hypothesized that the current politicization of educational issues influences students as never before and that this influence has great potential for re-shaping perceptions and evaluations of the political world. In the last…