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3.4 Political Values and Beliefs

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Lesson Overview

Political values are judgments about goals such as order, equality, liberty, welfare, religion, and national identity. Social position and lived experience can produce important variation within the same country.

Compare public attitudes and participation across the six AP course countries while separating formal rights from actual practice.

Quantitative lens: netsupport=percentsupport−percentoppose{net_support=percent_support-percent_oppose}.

In this unit

9 lessons

  1. 3.1Civil SocietyPreview lesson
  2. 3.2Political CulturePreview lesson
  3. 3.3Political IdeologiesPreview lesson
  4. 3.4Political Values and BeliefsThis lesson
  5. 3.5Nature and Role of Political ParticipationPreview lesson
  6. 3.6Forces that Impact Political ParticipationPreview lesson
  7. 3.7Civil Rights and Civil LibertiesPreview lesson
  8. 3.8Political and Social CleavagesPreview lesson
  9. 3.9Challenges from Political and Social CleavagesPreview lesson

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