8.1.6 Citizenship Survey
Completion requirements
8.1.6 Citizenship Survey
This survey will allow you to share your ideas about what responsible citizenship means.
Does your ideology influence your response to the issues around you? Complete this survey.
After you have completed the survey, compare your views with the following summary. Remember that this is one perspective on responsible citizenship. Your views may differ.
Becoming informed about the issues facing society:
Citizens must decide how knowledgeable they should become about things affecting society.
Satisfying personal goals and the goals of society:
Citizens must make choices about how much importance they place on seeking their own self-interest and how much they should place on fulfilling the collective interests of society.
Defining the role of government:
Citizens make decisions about why they need a government and the role that should be performed by government in society.
Influencing decisions:
Citizens make choices about how they will exercise power and affect the decisions to be made in society.
Accepting authority:
Citizens make choices about their attitudes toward the presence of authority in society.
Do people think that the presence of authority is necessary to help them achieve what they want or to limit their activities to maintain order in society?
Do people think that the presence of authority is necessary to help them achieve what they want or to limit their activities to maintain order in society?
Membership in society:
Citizens make choices about how they see themselves as part of society.
Do individuals have a sense of belonging, and do they act in ways that are accountable to the group?
Do individuals have a sense of belonging, and do they act in ways that are accountable to the group?
Accepting ideas of others:
Citizens decide how much they understand and tolerate the ideas of others.
Will they listen to and accept ideas that are different from their own?
Will they listen to and accept ideas that are different from their own?