Assignment:
Take the Pew Center's political ideology quiz found here: Quiz.
Study your results, and also read about the other ideological categories.
Discuss the Pew Center quiz results in the context of the other readings.
• Were you surprised the by the category that the Pew Center tool placed you in?
• Do the categories help you understand ideology or do they confuse matters for you?
• What's missing from these categories?
• Why do think that the country is so sharply divided ideologically?
Background Materials
1. OpenStax, American Government,
2. Stephen Hawkins and Tommy Flint, "Two Stories, One America: How Political Narratives Shape Our Understanding of Reality ." (Kennedy School Review, July 20, 2016).