Values and Citizenship Norms Among Youths: A Study of Active, Inactive and Standby Citizens

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Amna
Keyword(s):  
Citizenship Norms

scholarly journals Revisiting norms of citizenship in times of democratic change

Politics ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 026339572110317
Author(s):  
Christian Schnaudt ◽  
Jan W van Deth ◽  
Carolin Zorell ◽  
Yannis Theocharis
Keyword(s):  
Public Support ◽  
Measurement Instrument ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Democratic Citizenship ◽  
Empirical Application ◽  
Good Citizen ◽  
Sustainable Future ◽  
Democratic Polity ◽  
Democratic Change ◽  
Citizenship Norms

Over the last two decades, scholars have investigated norms of citizenship by focussing primarily on ‘dutiful’ and ‘engaged’ norms. In the meantime, contemporary democracies have witnessed growing demands for more sustainable styles of living and increasing public support for authoritarian and populist ideas. These developments point to both a change and an expansion of conventional understandings and conceptions of what a ‘good citizen’ in a democratic polity ought to do. Specifically, they raise questions about whether demands for more sustainability and increasing support for populist ideas establish new facets of democratic citizenship, and if so, how they can be meaningfully incorporated into existing images of citizenship. This study provides a re-conceptualization of citizenship norms and empirically tests a new measurement instrument using original data collected in Germany in 2019. The empirical application of an expanded set of items demonstrates the existence of more variegated facets of norms of citizenship, including norms to safeguard a sustainable future and distinct populist facets emphasizing the relevance of trust in authorities and experts as well as reliance on feelings and emotions. Contemporary conceptions of citizenship thus go beyond conventional distinctions between dutiful and engaged norms of citizenship.

scholarly journals Do “Good Citizens” fight hate speech online? Effects of solidarity citizenship norms on user responses to hate comments

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Marlene Kunst ◽  
Pablo Porten-Cheé ◽  
Martin Emmer ◽  
Christiane Eilders
Keyword(s):  
Hate Speech ◽  
Citizenship Norms

scholarly journals In Search of the Expressive Citizen

2020 ◽  
Vol 84 (S1) ◽  
pp. 257-283
Author(s):  
Daniel S Lane
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Marginalized Youth ◽  
Injunctive Norms ◽  
Political Expression ◽  
Good Citizen ◽  
Generational Changes ◽  
Citizenship Norms ◽  
Using Data

Abstract Scholars have often used generational changes in citizenship norms to theorize new forms of youth political expression on social media. Public opinion data has been employed to demonstrate that young people’s perceptions of what it means to be a “good citizen” (i.e., injunctive citizenship norms) have shifted toward models of citizenship that value self-expression. Yet several fundamental assumptions of this dominant image of the young “expressive citizen” remain untested. Using data from a national survey of young Americans (ages 18–24) collected during the 2018 US midterm election, the present study examines: a) if youth indeed view expression as a relatively important part of being a good citizen; and b) if injunctive norms concerning political expression are positively associated with engagement in political expression on social media. Findings indicate that injunctive expressive norms are distinct, but rated as the least important of all injunctive norms. Further, injunctive expressive norms were only modestly associated with social media political expression and difficult to empirically distinguish from what respondents viewed as personally important (i.e., personal expressive norms). While these findings challenge the way past research has theorized and measured the normative role of political expression among young people, they also reveal promising future directions. Specifically, the finding that traditionally marginalized youth place more normative value on political self-expression suggests an important next step for studying the expressive citizen in the age of social media.

Citizenship Norms and the Expansion of Political Participation

2008 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell J. Dalton
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Citizenship Norms

Conceptualizing Political Consumerism: How Citizenship Norms Differentiate Boycotting from Buycotting

2013 ◽  
Vol 62 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 172-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Copeland
Keyword(s):  
Political Consumerism ◽  
Citizenship Norms

scholarly journals ‘It’s my duty to be like “this is wrong”’: Youth political social media practices in the Trump era

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Penney
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Ongoing Development ◽  
Citizenship Norms ◽  
Youth Citizenship ◽  
Media Practices

Abstract This study used focus groups to explore emergent patterns of youth political social media practices in the Trump era. The participants (U.S. undergraduates aged 18 to 26) suggested that Trump’s election was a transformative moment in their lives and that they had shifted their approaches to political social media in response. Many articulated an increased sense of duty and responsibility to use social media to counter perceived problems—such as Trump’s ideological extremism and misinformation—online, suggesting the adaption of certain “dutiful citizenship” norms to an “actualizing” mode of political engagement that prioritizes digital self-expression. Simultaneously, Trump’s embrace of social media to communicate directly with publics also corresponds with youth “speaking back” as a more exploratory mode of engagement to define political identity. Together, the data highlight the ongoing development of hybrid youth citizenship styles in response to institutional shifts in tactical social media use and growing hyper-partisanship.

Mapping a Changing Field

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-38
Author(s):  
Louise Jørring ◽  
António Valentim ◽  
Pablo Porten-Cheé
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Digital Citizenship ◽  
Moving Target ◽  
Societal Impact ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
The Face ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
Citizenship Norms

Abstract Digitalization is transforming the face of political participation. Citizens increasingly engage in politics in new and creative forms online. The concept of digital citizenship has the potential to capture the shifting role of citizens under online conditions. Yet this concept has been used inconsistently, provoking theoretical and operational shortcomings that complicate its analytical usability and may limit its academic and societal impact. This article provides a systematic review of literature on digital citizenship. Based on a review of 139 articles, we identify three dominant approaches to digital citizenship: the normative, the conditional, and the contextual. Additionally, we provide a systematization of alternative approaches to digital citizenship and discuss their potential to inform literature on this concept. Finally, we put forward a citizenship norms approach that may reconcile the different perspectives on digital citizenship. In sum, this article presents a review of the digital citizenship research and provides new avenues for the concept to be used in future research on the moving target that political participation presents under online conditions.

Culture, Citizenship Norms, and Political Participation: Empirical Evidence from Taiwan

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 256-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
WEN-CHUN CHANG
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Asian Country ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
East Asian Country ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Good Citizen ◽  
Citizenship Norms ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Role Of Religion

AbstractThis study investigates the role of religion in shaping the norms of citizenship from a cultural perspective for an East Asian country that exhibits fundamental differences in social contexts from Western advanced democracies. Using data drawn from the Taiwan Social Change Survey, we find that the Eastern religions of Buddhism, Taoism, and Folk Religions are important for explaining the formation of the concept of being a good citizen. This study further examines the relationships between citizenship norms and various conventional and unconventional types of political participation. The empirical results herein suggest that duty-based citizenship and engaged citizenship have significant differences in their effects on political participation.

Marching Dykes, Liberated Sluts, and Concerned Mothers

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Currans
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Take Back ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Citizenship Norms ◽  
Public Demonstrations ◽  
Public Demonstration

This book examines how women’s public demonstrations claim and transform public space. Focusing on seven examples--Take Back the Night Marches, Dyke Marches, SlutWalks, Women in Black Vigils, CODEPINK direct actions, the March for Women’s Lives, and the Million Mom March--the book explores the ways that women use gender to physically and affective transform public space, through a process of “holding space” for each other. Marching Dykes, Liberated Sluts, and Concerned Mothers is organized into three sections addressing key foci of feminist public demonstration: sexuality, war and militarism, and citizenship norms and practices. Each section includes multiple, related chapters along with an introduction providing a brief overview of the issue and contextual links between the chapters. Throughout, the analyses emphasize the utopic impulse of public demonstration.

Religion and Democratic Citizenship: A Multilevel Examination

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 577-605 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Bolzendahl ◽  
Landon Schnabel ◽  
Rottem Sagi
Keyword(s):  
Religious Involvement ◽  
Democratic Citizenship ◽  
Religious Attendance ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Democratic Engagement ◽  
Citizenship Norms ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Program Data ◽  
International Social

AbstractWe conduct a multilevel examination of the relationship between religiosity and democratic citizenship norms and behaviors using International Social Survey Program data. We analyze how democratic engagement varies according to individual and national average religious involvement in 28 predominantly-Christian democracies. We find that (1) individual-level religious attendance is positively linked to both what people say (norms) and what they do (participation); (2) nations with higher aggregate national attendance participate less politically; and (3) the relationship between individual-level religious engagement and citizenship varies by national religious context. More specifically, individual religious attendance matters more where it is more distinctive (i.e., in more secular countries). Individual-level religious participation is generally conducive to citizenship, but its impact is context-dependent.

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