How do individuals with a college education differ in terms of ...

[beccaep]

How do individuals with a college education differ in terms of their political attitudes and opinions from those with less education? Why might a college education produce such differences?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

An acquaintance of yours is female, 23 years old, a recent college graduate, and a Republican who attends church weekly.
 
  Use the opinion abortion should be legal throughout pregnancy as a matter of choice to illustrate the idea of crosscutting cleavages and intersectionality for this individual.
  What will be an ideal response?

[ynlevi]

Answer to Question 1

Answer: An ideal response will:
1. Indicate that college graduates have higher levels of internal political efficacy.
2. Indicate that college graduates tend to be more liberal on social issues but more conservative on fiscal issues.
3. Indicate that college graduates tend to be more supportive of First Amendment rights.
4. Explain that college students are exposed to diversity and often have courses with liberal faculty. Explain that college graduates typically have higher incomes.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: An ideal response will:
1. Define and explain crosscutting cleavages and intersectionality.
2. Identify common attitudes toward the abortion issue for each of the relevant group distinctions: gender, age, education, party identification, and religiosity.
3. Explain how the different identities can reinforce and contradict one another with regard to opinion on this issue.