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Civic Talk and Civic Participation

American Politics Research, 2009
Individuals who discuss politics and current events in their social network also participate in civic activities. However, analytical biases make it difficult to show a causal relationship between these two phenomena. To obtain a more accurate measurement of the effect that civic talk has on civic participation, data were collected through a panel ...
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Adolescents' Civic Engagement: Concordant and Longitudinal Associations Among Civic Beliefs and Civic Involvement

Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2018
Associations between adolescent civic and organized activities (volunteering, standard political, social movement, school/community, religious) and civic beliefs (comprised of should, obligation, and respect judgments) were examined. Cross‐sectional models (N = 703, Mage = 15.87) indicated domain specificity between adolescent civic beliefs and ...
Aaron, Metzger, Kaitlyn A, Ferris, Benjamin, Oosterhoff   +2 more
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Civic Socialization and Civic Participation

2011
The book began with an argument that citizens have from the nation’s earliest days been confronted by two different and often contradictory motivations for participation in civic and political life: self-interest and civic duty. While the founders were certainly not of a unified mind on the value of either one to the civic health of the new republic ...
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Mother–adolescent civic messages: Associations with adolescent civic behavior and civic judgments

Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2016
Abstract Observational and multi-informant survey data were used to examine associations among mothers' civic behavior, observed mother–adolescent messages about civic responsibility, and adolescents' judgments about civic duty and civic behavior. Adolescents ( N  = 144, M age  = 14.49 [12–18] years) and their mothers ( N  = 144) participated in a ...
Benjamin Oosterhoff, Aaron Metzger
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Against Civic Schooling

Social Philosophy and Policy, 2004
A fierce debate about civic education in American public schools has erupted in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Many liberals and conservatives, though they disagree strongly about which civic virtues to teach, share the assumption that such education is an appropriate responsibility for public schools.
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Civic Action

The entry deals with civic activism in the public realm through a definition of the concepts that define the phenomenon and the presentation of a a repertoire of civic action "technologies".
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Civic Knowledge, Civic Education, and Civic Engagement: A Summary of Recent Research

International Journal of Public Administration, 2007
Abstract In recent decades, many indicators of civic involvement in the United States have declined. The decline is political engagement has been especially pronounced, although signs of renewed interest evident in the 2006 elections may represent a reversal of long-established trends. Trust in government and most major social institutions remains low,
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Civic Art, Civic Life and Urbanism

1999
Let me lay out some premises of what follows. These premises can be known, but they cannot be proven. They reside in the realm of articles of faith, of propositions that are self-evident to the wise, and in the domain of truth. They belong in nature, and knowing them helps define human nature. One such point is this: The mature, sane person understands
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Civic Cultures and Civic Colleges in Victorian England*

2005
This chapter discusses the role played by civic colleges in the emergence of autonomous professional groups associated with new disciplines between 1860 and the Great War. It also discusses the role of local learned societies, particularly literary and philosophical societies in the founding and support of the young colleges and their impact on college
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Civic media literacies: re-Imagining engagement for civic intentionality

Learning, Media and Technology, 2018
This paper explores the structural constraints of contemporary approaches to media literacy in the face of increased partisanship, tribalism, and distrust.
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