Pt 3: Chapter 7 Vocab

Question 1

A feeling of personal powerlessness that includes the notion that government does not care about the opinions of people like oneself

Answer 1

Alienation

Question 2

A feeling of personal disinterest in or lack of concern with politics

Answer 2

Apathy

Question 3

The belief of an individual that civic and political participation is a responsibility of citizenship

Answer 3

Civic duty

Question 4

Involvement in activities intended to influence public policy and leadership, such as voting, joining political groups, contacting elected officials, demonstrating for political causes, and giving money to political candidates

Answer 4

Political participation

Question 5

The practice of placing citizens’ names on an official list of voters before they are eligible to exercise their right to vote

Answer 5

Registration

Question 6

The sum of the face-to-face interaction among citizens in a society

Answer 6

Social capital

Question 7

Active and sustained efforts to achieve social and political change by groups of people who feel that government has not been properly responsive to their concerns

Answer 7

Social (political) movement

Question 8

The right to vote

Answer 8

Suffrage

Question 9

The proportion of persons voting age who actually vote in a given election

Answer 9

Voter turnout