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AP Gov ch 6 vocab
STUPID WORD IDK
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Census | count of American population every 10 yrs |
| Civic competence | belief one can affect gov policies |
| Civil disobedience | unconventional participation designed to consciously break law thought to be unjust |
| Class consciousness | belief you are a member of an economics group whose interests are opposed to people in other such groups |
| Demography | science of human population |
| Elite | people with disproportionate amount of valued resource |
| Exit Poll | poll taken at randomly selected polling places after citizens have places their votes |
| Gender Gap | women more likely than men to express liberal attitudes to support democratic candidates |
| Melting pot | mixture of cultures ideas and people in the united states |
| minority majority | reference to status of white, Anglo-Saxon Americans, currently holding majority status |
| Norm | standard right and proper conduct |
| Orthodox religion | morality and religion ought to be of decisive importance |
| political culture | overall set of values widely shared within a society |
| political efficacy | belief you can participate in politics or the gov will respond to citizenry |
| political elites | people with disproportionate share of political power |
| political ideology | coherent set of values and beliefs about public policy |
| political participation | activities used by citizens to influence political outcomes |
| political socialization | process which citizens acquire knowledge feelings and evaluations of the political world |
| poll | survey of public opinion |
| progressive religion | belief that personal freedom and solving social problems are more important than religion |
| protest | form of political participation designed to change policy through unconventional tactics |
| public opinion | distribution of the populations beliefs about politics and issues |
| random digit dialing | phone #s dialed at random around the country |
| random sampling | polling technique based on principle that everyone has equal probability of being selected as part of the sample |
| reapportionment | reallocation of 435 seats in House of Representatives based on changes in residency and population found in the census |
| sample | small proportion of the population chosen to represent the whole population |
| sampling error | level of confidence involved in a sample result- level is dependent on size of the sample |
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