SOCI 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Dog Whistle, Authoritarianism, Rationality
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Us election politics as personal troubles and public issues race and politics role of gender rise of populism . Trump sees problems as personal troubles, hilary sees as public issues. Dog whistle = political messaging that uses coded messages that mean one thing to the general population but something different to a targeted subgroup. Women advocate for different policy priorities childcare, violence prevention, pay equity put issues on agenda change perceptions of women"s roles and abilities as leader female role models increase self-esteem of girls, their knowledge and interest in politics. Voter turnout overt and covert racism and general negative ads goals: increase racist sentiments in white voters and depress minority vong, decreased general efficacy voter identification laws discourages low income, first nations, students etc. Rationalization = disenchantment of the world enlightenment turn to new ideas of science, logic, reasoning and evidence to make decisions.
