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Chapter 6: Vocab
Vocabulary for Chapter 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Public Opinion | The aggregate of individual attitudes or beliefs held by the population. |
| Demography | The study of the human population. The study can include information containing the beliefs, and general ideas of the population. |
| Census | The procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. |
| Melting Pot | A metaphor for a heterogeneous society becoming more homogeneous. |
| Minority Majority | A term used to describe a U.S. state or other jurisdiction whose racial composition is less than fifty-percent of a racial category. |
| Political Culture | The traditional orientation of the citizens of a nation toward politics, affecting their perceptions of political legitimacy. |
| Reapportionment | The process of allocating political power among a set of principles. |
| Political Socialization | A concept concerning the study of the developmental processes by which children and adolescents acquire political cognition, attitudes and behaviors. |
| Sample | A part of statistical practice concerned with the selection of political information. |
| Random Sampling | A part of statistical practice concerned with the selection of an unbiased or random subset of individual observations within a population of individuals intended to yield some knowledge about the population of concern. |
| Sampling Error | The error caused by observing a sample instead of the whole population. |
| Random-digit Dialing | A method for selecting people for involvement in telephone statistical surveys by generating telephone numbers at random. |
| Exit Poll | A poll of voters taken immediately after they have exited the polling stations. |
| Political Ideology | A certain ethical set of ideals, or principles, for a polotical party. |
| Gender Gap | A gap between the male and female gender, in politics. |
| Political Participation | Participation of individuals in a government's decision making. |
| Protest | Expresses a strong reaction of events or situations, by rally. |
| Civil Disobedience | Is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government. |
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