Examples and definitions of political, social and civil citizenship?

[BreakingMatt]

What are some?

Civil is the day to day things we embody. What would an example be? Same with political and social, too. Thanks!

[Ayn Rand]

Irrelevant.

[bwlobo]

Many folks don't even know the definition of "citizenship"!

Your question about political citizenship, social citizenship or civil citizenship... has some obvious follow-up questions before anyone could start to answer. Whose country are you talking about... Why should citizenship be divided up into sub-groups...

There is such a thing as different citizens having different political, social and civil pre-suppositions as they pursue the process of citizenship. But once you're a citizen of a nation, you are a citizen. Period. Different citizens have different viewpoints, but there really are no legal terms to divide citizenship.

As far as U.S. citizenship goes.... You must know that there is a legal way to become a U.S. Citizen and it involves taking a test. Here are some sample questions: http://usgovinfo.about.com/blinstst.htm

A few years ago, when pollsters asked Americans to name two of Snow White's Seven Dwarfs and two of the nine U.S. Supreme Court justices, 77 percent of Americans polled were able to identify two dwarfs, while only 24 percent could name two Supreme Court justices.

But how often are the justices discussed on news programs, where ostensibly, Americans receive their civic education... A quick Nexis search for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to take one example, finds her mentioned less than once a month each on ABC, CBS and NBC morning and evening newscasts in 2010: 10 on ABC, eight on NBC, six on CBS. That's just mentions, not stories.

Or take "communism." The word was mentioned just 19 times on the Big Three morning and evening newscasts in 2010 (eight on ABC, seven on CBS, four on NBC). That's despite Communist parties still ruling China, North Korea and Cuba, among others.

Perhaps the news media think they don't have time or space to waste on high-school basics about civics. Newsweek turns to liberal experts to find agreeable culprits for civic ignorance, such as "our reliance on market-driven programming rather than public broadcasting," which would "foster greater knowledge" than commercial news.