1. Ch. 6 Vocabulary Review Public Opinion

2. A form of political participation designed to achieve policy change through dramatic and unconventional tactics.
Protest

3. Political Socialization
The process of acquiring information and beliefs about politics. Occurs through a variety of agents: the family, schools, peers and community, religious institutions, the media, and exposure to national and world events. .
Political Socialization

4. Level of confidence in the findings of a public opinion poll
Level of confidence in the findings of a public opinion poll. The more people interviewed, the more confident one can be in the survey. Emerges because no matter how good the work, it is never an exact match for the population.
Sampling Error

5. The collective political beliefs and attitudes of the public and groups within the public.
Public Opinion

6. Choosing a relatively small group of people to participate in a survey
Choosing a relatively small group of people to participate in a survey. For survey data to be valid, care must be taken to ensure that the group is representative of the population.
Sample

7. Political philosophy that favors limited government and freedom of the private sector. More likely to support military spending, free markets, prayer in school, and reduce taxes. Opposes abortion, affirmative action, and government spending on social programs.
Conservatism

8. A system of interrelated and coherently organized political beliefs and attitudes. It helps give meaning to political events.
Political Ideology

9. Political Participation
All of the activities used by citizens to influence the selection of political leaders or the policies they pursue. The most common means of political participation in a democracy is voting. Other means include protest and civil disobedience.
Political Participation

10. Overall set of values widely shared in a society.
Political Culture

11. Term used to characterize the U. S
Term used to characterize the U.S., with its history of immigration and mixing of cultures, ideas, and peoples.
and all other
peoples
not listed
above the pot
due to lack of space or
Melting Pot

12. Favors an active central government with social and economic responsibilities, a more equal distribution of wealth, more government regulation of big business, more government spending on social programs, and abortion. Opposes increases in defense spending and military actions, prayer in school, and tax breaks for the wealthy.
Liberalism

13. Men tend to be more traditional and vote for Republicans, while women are more liberal and vote for Democrats.
Gender Gap

14. Process of reallocating seats in the House of Representatives every 10 years on the basis of the results of the census.
Reapportionment

15. Surveys in which every member of the population has an equal chance of being in the group. It is considered the gold standard in survey research. Most polling organizations rely this technique.
Random Sampling

16. The situation, beginning sometime in the mid-21st Century, in which non-Hispanic whites will represent a minority of the population and minority groups together will represent a majority.
Minority Majority
Texas is already a minority state as is California, New Mexico, and Hawaii

17. Any of the means of communication, such as  television or newspapers, that reach very large numbers of people.
Mass Media

18. The science of population changes.
Demography

19. Public opinion surveys used by major media pollsters to predict electoral winners with speed and precision.
Exit Polls

20. A form of political participation based on a conscious decision to break a law believed to be unjust and suffer the consequences.
Civil Disobedience

21. The actual “enumeration” of the population, which the Constitution requires the government conduct every 10 years. It is a valuable tool for understanding demographic changes.
Census

22. Random- digit-dialing
Technique used by pollsters to place phone calls randomly to both listed and unlisted numbers when conducting a survey.  
Random- digit-dialing