Yet I do not want to overemphasize the significance of increased political knowledge in forming adolescent ideology. Over the years I have become progressively disenchanted about the centrality of such knowledge and have come to believe that much current work in political socialization, by relying too heavily on its apparent acquisition, has been misled about the tempo of political understanding in adolescence. Just as young children can count numbers in series without grasping the principle of ordination, young adolescents may have in their heads many random bits of political information without a secure understanding of those concepts that would give order and meaning to the information.
Like magpies, childrens minds pick up bits and pieces of data. If you encourage them, they will drop these at your feetRepublicans and Democrats, the tripartite division of the federal system, perhaps even the capital of Massachusetts. But until the adolescent has grasped the integumental function that concepts and principles provide, the data remain fragmented, random, disordered.
21. The authors primary purpose in the passage is to
clarify the kinds of understanding an adolescent must have in order to develop a political ideology
dispute the theory that a political ideology can be acquired during adolescence
explain why adolescents are generally uninterested in political arguments
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