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Chapter 6 AP US Gov.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a count of the american population every ten years | Census |
| a form of unconventional participation designed to consciously break a law thought to be unjust. | Civil Disobedience |
| a set of beliefs about politics, public policy , and public purpose,emphasizing maintaining peace through strengeth, supporting right-to-life and prayer in school ,opposing affirmative action and favoring free-market rather than gov't solutions. | Conservatism |
| the science of human populations | Demography |
| a consistent attitudinal pattern where women are more likely than men to express liberal attitudes and support democratic candidates | Gender Poll |
| a set of beliefs about politics, public policy, and public purpose, emphasizing less spending on the millitary, free choice on obortion, opposition to prayer in school and viewing the government as a regulator in the public interest. | Liberalism |
| the mixture of cultures, ideas, and peoples in the US | Melting Point |
| a reference to the impending status of white, Anglo-Saxon Americans, currently holding majority status. | Minority majority |
| an overall set of values widely shared within a society | Political Culture |
| a coherent set of values widely shared within a society | Political Ideology |
| the activities used by citizens to influence political outcomes | Political Participation |
| the process by which citizens acquire their knowledge, feelings, and evaluations of the political world. | Political Socialization |
| a form of political participation designed to change policy through unconventional tactics | Protest |
| a poll taken at randomly selected polling places after the citizens have placed their votes | Exit Poll |
| the distribution of the population's beliefs about politics and issues. | Public Opinion |
| phone numbers are dialed at random around the country | Random digit dialing |
| a polling technique which is based on the principle that everyone has an equal probability of being selected as part of the sample | Radom Sampling |
| the reallocation of 435 seats in the House of representatives based on changes in residency and population found in the census | Reapportionment |
| a small proportion of the population chosen as representative of the whole population | Sample |
| the level of cofidence involved in a sample result-the level is dependent on the size of the sample | Sampling error |
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