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Over the years Sociologists have argued that people with similar social characteristics tend to vote for the same parties. This usually goes for Social Class.
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Over the years Sociologists have argued that people with similar social characteristics tend to vote for the same parties. This usually goes for Social Class. From 1945 to 1970 many of the voters in Britain saw themselves as either Labour or Conservative and therefore they voted accordingly. This loyalty to a particular party is known as Partisan Alignment. For years Labour (Left Wing) has been seen as the party for the workingman and Conservative (Right Wing) seen as the party for the Middle classes, and this was usually reflected in that of voting patterns, like in the 1964 election where 64% of working class people voted labour and 62% of middle class and upper classes voted Conservative. These links between social class, party identification and voting behaviour is known as Class Alignment. According to Butler and Stokes (1974) what actually accounts for Partisan and Class Alignment is Political Socialisation. This is where children...
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