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25 Cards in this Set
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What is public opinion?
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The distribution of the population's beliefs about politics and policy issues.
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What is demography?
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The science of population changes.
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What is a census?
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A tool used to understand demographics.
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How many waves of immigration have there been?
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Three; late 1800's, late 1800's and early 1900's and late 1900's.
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What is a melting pot?
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A mixing of cultures, ideas and people.
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What is a minority-majority?
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An emergence of a non-white majority (expected to occur in 2060).
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What are some of the reasons people immigrate?
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Poverty, religion and more opportunity.
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What is political culture?
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An overall set of values shared within a society.
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Are we in the midst of a culture war?
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Yes, everyone has different values.
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What is reapportionment?
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The process of reallocating seats in the House after each census.
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What is political socialization?
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The way a person acquires their political knowledge and ideology.
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What are the ways in which you can become politically socialized?
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Family, mass media, school.
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What is a sample?
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A small proportion of people who are surveyed and represent the country as a whole.
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What is random sampling?
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Everyone has an equal chance of being picked for the sample.
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What is sampling error?
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The level of confidence of a polls results. This goes up with the number of people sampled.
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What is random-digit dialing?
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Using machines to randomly choose phone numbers to survey.
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What are the general characteristics of a liberal?
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Young, a minority, poor, non-christian.
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What are the general characteristics of a conservative?
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Old, caucasian, rich, christian.
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What are the majority of the people?
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In the middle.
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What are ideologues?
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Voters who connect their opinions with the party as a whole.
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What are group-benefits voters?
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Voters who think in terms of who they like or dislike.
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What are nature of the times voters?
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Voters who vote against the party causing misfortune no matter the issues.
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What are no issue content groups?
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Voters who judge the candidates solely on personality.
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What is a protest?
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A form of political participation that is designed to change policy through unconventional methods.
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What is civil disobedience?
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A conscious decision to break a law and suffer the consequences.
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