Political Identification, Political Ideology, and Critical Social Analysis of Inequality Among Marginalized Youth

This study applies multiple indicator and multiple causes modeling to examine to what extent critical social analysis of inequality, a dimension of critical consciousness (CC), may be explained by political party identification (i.e., Republican vs. Democrat) or political ideology (i.e., conservativ...

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Published in:Developmental psychology 2019-03, Vol.55 (3), p.538-549
Main Authors: Diemer, Matthew A., Voight, Adam M., Marchand, Aixa D., Bañales, Josefina
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescent Development
Adolescents
Cognitive Complexity
Consciousness
Consciousness States
Disadvantaged
Economic Inequality
Economics
Equal Education
Female
High School Students
Human
Humans
Identification
Ideology
Inequality
Male
Marginality
Marginalization
Midwestern United States
Minority Groups
Party identification
Political Affiliation
Political Conservatism
Political identity
Political ideologies
Political institutions
Political Parties
Politics
Power Structure
Public Schools
Secondary school students
Secondary schools
Social exclusion
Social inequality
Social Marginalization
Social Problems
Social research
Socioeconomic Factors
Thinking
Youth
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Summary:This study applies multiple indicator and multiple causes modeling to examine to what extent critical social analysis of inequality, a dimension of critical consciousness (CC), may be explained by political party identification (i.e., Republican vs. Democrat) or political ideology (i.e., conservative vs. liberal). These issues were examined among 237 public high school students from a large Midwestern city, who generally came from historically marginalized groups. Analyses suggest that political party identification was only marginally associated with critical social analysis of inequality and political ideology had a small positive association with critical social analysis of inequality. Further, political identification and political ideology only explained between 2% and 4% of the variance in critical social analysis of inequality. These results suggest complexity in how youth think about political institutions and inequality, while also providing evidence that a critical social analysis of inequality is largely independent of political identification and ideology.
ISSN:0012-1649
1939-0599
DOI:10.1037/dev0000559