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15 Cards in this Set
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John Q. Public
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Colloquial term for everage citizens and what they want or believe
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Middle America
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A phrase coined by Joseph Kraft in a 1968 newspaper column to refer to Americans who have moved out of poverty but are not yet affluent and cheris raditional middle-class values
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silent majority
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A phrase used to describe people, whatever their eson. status, who uphold traditional values, especially against the counterculture of the 1960s
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social status
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A measure of one's social standing obtained by combinging factors such as education, income, and occupation.
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religious tradition
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The moral teachings of religious institutions on religious, social, and econ. issues
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gender gap
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Differences in the political vews and voting behavior of men and women
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poll
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A survey of public opinion
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random sample
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A sample selected in such a way that any member of the population being surveyed has and equal chance of being interviewed
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liberal
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In general, a person who favors a more active fed. gov't for regulating business, supporting social welfare, and protection minority rights, but who prefers less regulation of private social conduct
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conservative
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In general, a person who favors more limited and local gov't, less gov't regulation of markets, more social conformity to traditional norms adn values, adn tougher policies toward criminals
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sampling error
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The difference b/w the results of two surveys or samples.
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libertarians
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People who wish to maximize personal liberty on both econ. and social issues. The prefer a small, weak gov't that has little control over either the economy or the personal lives of citizens
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populists
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People who hold liveral views on econ matters and conservitive ones on social matters. They prefer a strong gov't that will reduce econ enequality, regulat businesses, and impose stricter social and criminal sanctions. The name and views have theri origins in and agriculturally based social movementand party of teh 1880s and 1890s that sought ot curb the power of influential econ interests
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political elite
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An identifiable group of persons who possess a disproportionate share of some valued resource - such as money or political power
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norm
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A standard of right or proper conduct that helps determine the range of acceptable social behavior and policy options
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