Letting your voice be heard

• Geschiedenis
• Secondary Education
• Age 13

Let your voice be heard

To do or not to do

Objectives

After this class you know:

1. interest groups

2. political system

3. tools used by interest groups

 

collective and individual interests.

Social mobility 

social environment

posibilities

talent

Government policy also plays a role

Goverment

welfare state

or

liberal state

Welfare state:

NL

collective interests

they are important to many people, such as:

good education;

safety;

good health care;

and much more.

Liberal state:

USA

individual interests

they are important to specefic people, such as liberal economy

interests

the benefit you get from something.

Individual interest

opposing interests

Interest groups

groups of individuals with a common interest!!

tools that they can use:

Collect signatures/   Actions

Demonstrations

Boycotts

Strikes /Go to court

Lobbying

File assignment: interest groups

There are different interest groups. Who goes for the cheapest, who for the most social and who for the most environmentally friendly banana? Which banana are you going for? What is most important to you; the price, the farmer's income or the environment? Are you going for short- or long-term solutions? The table below briefly lists all the characteristics of the bananas.

File assignment: interest groups

The different interest groups are divided into your group:

Market vendor

Young mother

Advertising man

(Environmental) activist

Student

File assignment: interest groups

Try to empathize with your role and think about your position.

Think of and describe at least 5 arguments for your position. Why does the person you represent choose that one banana? When considering your role, also consider the social and economic status someone is in.

File assignment: interest groups

Argument 1:……….

Argument 2:……….

Argument 3:……….

Argument 4:……….

Argument 5:……….

File assignment: interest groups

Does everyone have 5 arguments? Then you will listen to the different positions of the interest groups:

Per group member you can argue your own position in 1 minute using the 5 arguments you have written down/typed.

After 1 minute, another group member will argue his/her own position.

Has everyone argued their own position? Then think together which interest groups can agree and which are completely different and why?

For your file, describe the following (in at least 150 words):

What was your character?

Describe at least the 5 arguments for your position

How did the discussion feel?

Which other character did you agree with and why?

Was there a conflict of interest and why?

What did you think of this assignment? Have you learned anything?