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Ch 6 Ap Gov
Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Public Opinion | The distribution of the population's beliefs about politics and policy issues |
| Demography | the science of population changes |
| census | a valuable tool for understanding demographic changes |
| Melting pot | the mixing of cultures, ideas, and people that have changed the American nation |
| Minority Majority | the emergence of a non-Caucasian majority |
| Political culture | an overall set of values widely shared within a society |
| reapportionment | the process of reallocating seats in the House of Reps every 10 years on the basis of the results of the census |
| Political socialization | how someone gets their particular political orientations, such as knowledge, feelings, and the way you were raised |
| sample | a relatively small portion of people who are chosen in a survey so as to be representative of the whole |
| random sampling | the key technique employed by sophisticated survey researchers, which operates on the principle that everyone should have an equal probability of being selected for the sample |
| sampling error | the level of confidence in the findings of a public opinion poll |
| random digit dialing | a technique used by pollsters to place telephone calls randomly to both listed and unlisted members when conducting a survey |
| exit poll | public opinion surveys used by major media pollsters to predict electoral winners with speed and precision |
| Gender gap | the regular pattern by which women are more likely to support democratic candidates; women tend to be significantly less conservative than men and are more likely to support spending on social services and to opposed higher levels of military spending |
| Political disobedience | all the activities used by citizens to influence the selection of political leaders or the policies they pursue. |
| protest | a form of political participation designed to achieve policy change through dramatic and unconventional tactics |
| Civil Disobedience | reflects a conscious decision to break a law believed to me immoral and to suffer the consequences |
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