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Economics
Chapter 3 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Agents of political socialization | individuals, organizations, and institutions that influence political attitudes |
| Congruence theory | principle that states that the distribution of cultural patterns is typically related to the type of political process that citizens expect and support |
| Democratization | trend reflects long-term responses to modernity as well as immediate reactions to current events |
| Direct socialization | socialization that takes place when an individual and/or group explicitly communicates information, values, or feelings toward politics |
| Globalization | trend increasing international trade and international interactions tend to diffuse the values of the overall international system |
| Indirect socialization | occurs when political views are inadvertently molded by our experiences |
| Legitimacy | a government's state of lawfulness |
| Marketization | an increased public acceptance of free markets and private profit incentives, rather than a government-managed economy |
| Political culture | public attitudes toward politics and the citizen's role in the political system |
| Political socialization | the way in which political values are formed and political culture is transmitted from one generation to the next |
| Political subcultures | distinctive cultures that develop from the division of a country's political values |