Civic Talk And Civic Participation

Civic participation is important priorities for our nation. It affects many aspects of our lives and we do not realize what we are doing. On a regular basis we are engaged into some sort of civic participation. Examples of factor are social support from family and friends, and social support from co-workers. In the article “The relationship of different sources of social support and civic participation with self-rated health” by Hugo C. van Woerden, Wouter Poortinga, Karin Bronstering, Anupam Garrib, and Aseel Hegazi talks about how social support and self-rated health is associated with civic participation. The article “Association of personality, neighbourhood, and civic participation with the level of perceived social support: The HUNT

Klofstad breaks down the effect of civic talk has on civic participation. The author refers to civic talk as an individual’s social network. No not Facebook but whom they associate with on a regular bases. One the studies that were conducted “The study is quasi-experimental because the students who participated in it were randomly assigned to their first year dormitory roommates, the results generated from the data show that there is a meaningful causal relationship between civic talk and civic participation” (Klofstad 857). The question is does an individual’s civic predisposition affects one civic participation or engaging in civic talk? The author’s answer to that question is “The extant political science literature on civic participation shows that individuals with weak civic predispositions are generally less civically active than are those with strong predispositions” (Klofstad 859). The answer the question is completely understandable. The author continues to explain how an individual has a weak predisposition. An example of this is “If a person feels that the costs of engaging in civic participation are too high, or that the benefits are too low – that is, if he or she has weak civic predispositions- being exposed to civic talk should have a weaker effect on his or her patterns of civic participation” (Klofstad 859). This I also agree with

Everyone has the right to participate in activities within the community and also outside their community. The problem is not just within the United States but all over the world like Norway mentioned earlier in this essay. According to recent studies show that the decrease in civic participation is in result to the age of the individual and their ability to interact with others. All of these articles have at least one thing in common and that is that they all show us, the reader, how important it is to get involved with what is going on in our community no matter our age, gender, or health