pol. sci. test 1
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- politics
- art of manipulation, coercion, negotiation
- political education
- how one is educated about political beliefs
- cognative socialization
- learning facts and data about political topics
- affective socialization
- learning opinions or values about political topics
- 4 questions dealt with by socialization experts
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A) from whom
B) how permanent
C) what specific methods
D) at what age - agents of socialization
- whom do they learn from
- etticacy
- belief that one can make a difference
- cognative dissonance
- mental anxiety or stress, leads to selective perception or perpetual screening
- imitation/association method
- learning
- operant conditioning method
- learn by the condition to do something (environment, reward and punishment)
- small children
- understand basic concepts, helps build patriotism
- older (6 grade)
- learns fundamental structure of govt., minorities are negative towards govt.
- political culture
- general set of political beliefs and opinions held in common by a group of people in a certain region
- american political culture
-
A) freedom
B) democracy
C) capitalism - socialism
- govt. owns and runs businesses
- Daniel Elazar
- wrote "American Federalism: A View From The States"
- "American Federalism: A View From The States"
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A) traditionalism
B) moralistic
C) individualistic - traditionalism
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Found in the South
A) politics are dirty
B) govt. are elitist
C) purpose of govt. is to
protect the statue quo - moralism
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Northern US/Rocky Mts.
A) govt. is a force for good
B) politics are honorable
C) politics should be
inclusive
D) help everyone, esp. poor - individualistic
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Midstates
A) govt should be run like a
business with no amateurs
B) strong belief in
capitalism
C) gov. goal is to protect
the market
D) acceptance of corruption - positive participation
- legal, accepted by the public (petition, voting, ect)
- negative participation
- illegal, popularly unaccepted forms (blackmail, terrorists, ect)
- civil disobedience
- neither positive or negative. violates a bad law intentionally to bring it to public attention (sit ins)
- allienation
- participation in useless and is ineffective
- cynicism
- distrust or lack of faith in govt.
- apathy
- lack of concern
- causes for negative attitudes
-
A) corruption in govt
B) difficulty of problems
faced by govt
C) negativism of press
D) govt is taking away basic
rights - recall
- removal of an elected official from office
- initiative
- use of a petition to add an item to a ballot, bypasses the legislature
- referendum
- use of a petition to add an item to a ballot, already passed by legislature
- public opinion
- govt finds prudent to heed
- Walter Lippman
- wrote "Public Opinion"
- "Public Opinion"
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A) people do not have time
to be informed
B) are not well educated
C) do not have the knowledge
D) have no desire
E) don't share a consensus
F) no good way to measure
public opinions
G) public poles are too
expensive
H) public sets moral
boundries for elected
officials