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What is Political Socialization?
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The way we develop our political attitudes from mentors and teachers.
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What is the most powerful socializing agent?
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Family.
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What are Attitudes?
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An individual's propensity to perceive or act toward a certain object in a particular way.
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What causes kids to have views?
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Parents and Environment.
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What are the layers of Political Socialization?
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Family
Schools Peers Media |
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What is Selective Exposure?
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Picking and choosing the media they agree with.
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What other influences can affect Political Socialization?
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Religion, ethnicity, race.
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How readily do adults' opinions change?
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Slowly and stubbornly.
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What does attentive public mean?
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citizens who follow public affairs carefully.
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What percent of US public are part time citizens?
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40 percent.
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What is socialism?
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An economic system based on public ownership of the means of production and exchange.
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What is public opinion?
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The distribution of individual preferences for a given issue.
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What are the 3 factors of polling?
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Intensity
Latency Salience |
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What is manifest opinion?
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A widely held view.
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What is the attentive public?
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People who understand and follow politics.
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What is Public opinion?
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DDistribution of indivudal preferences on issues.
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What is an open-ended question?
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A reply that permits people to answer in their own words.
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What is intensity?
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The degree to which people feel strongly about opinions.
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What is Latency?
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When people hold opinions but do not fully express them.
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What is Salience?
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Issues most people believe are important.
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Black people vote in what kinds of rates?
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Lower than white people.
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What is a general election?
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How we elect officeholders.
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What is a primary election?
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How we determine party nominees
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Canidates must ___ their loyal supporters.
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MOBILIZE
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What is a canvass?
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conducting interviews on the phone to find out what issues matter.
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What is prospective issue voting?
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Voting based on what promises are made.
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What is retrospective issue voting?
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Voting on how people have acted before.
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What does Howard Zinn think?
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Democracy can be measured by comparison to ideal standards.
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Who believes democracy should be measured by comparison to ideal standards?
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Howard Zinn
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What does Sidney Hook believe?
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Democracy can not be ideal, we just do the best we can. We should compare ourselves to the past.
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Who believes the democracy can not be ideal, and should be measured by comparison to the past?
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Sidney Hook
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What does Charles A. Beard believe?
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The founding fathers were all just trying to safeguard their own economic interests.
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Who believes the founding fathers were just trying to guard their own economic interests?
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Charles A Beard
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Who wrote "An Economic Interpretation to the Constitution of the United States"?
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Charles A. Beard
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What did Robert E. Brown claim?
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The Charles A. Beard was selective in his information and that the founding fathers' goals were NOT just self-interested economics.
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Which author opposes unfunded mandates?
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Lamar Alexander
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Which author supports unfunded mandates?
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George Miller.
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What does George Miller believe?
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Unfunded mandates are necessary.
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Who believes that gay marriage should be a matter of states rights?
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J. Harvie Wilikson III
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Who believes that gay marriage should be a matter of federal rights?
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Adam J. White
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What does Frank Newport believe?
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Polls are useful and that groups of people are more informed than individuals.
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What does Robert Weissberg believe?
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Leaders should not follow opinion polls, and polls are useless.
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Who believes polls are useless?
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Robeort Weissburger.
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What does Wetheimer believe?
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30 second ads are pointless. Some alternatives would be banning political ads on tv, and Congress should require candidates to appear on their commercials.
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Who defends Thirty-Second Campaign Ads?
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Setphen Bates and Edwin Diamond.
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