US Chapter 5

Question 1

Agents of socialization

Answer 1

A “teacher” in the process of political socialization, for example, the family, the school, a peer group, or the mass media

Question 2

Civil disobedience

Answer 2

A form of political protest in which advocates of a cause deliberately break a law as a means of asserting its illegitimacy or drawing attention to their cause

Question 3

Party identification

Answer 3

Psychological attachment that a citizen may feel toward a particular political party

Question 4

Passive resistance

Answer 4

A form of civil disobedience in which protestors do not actively oppose government’s attempts to control them, but rather refuse to cooperate by doing nothing

Question 5

Political efficacy

Answer 5

A person’s sense of being able to accomplish something politically, an important determinant of political participation

Question 6

Policial socialization

Answer 6

The process by which citizens acquire politically relevant knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, and patterns of behavior

Question 7

Polling

Answer 7

The process of using social science methods to get an accurate sense of the public’s view about an issue or set of issues

Question 8

Public opinion

Answer 8

The arrays of beliefs and attitudes that people hold about political and related affairs

Question 9

Rational actor model

Answer 9

A perspective that looks at politics as a system in which individuals and organizations pursue their self-interests defined in terms of costs and benefits, and choose to do those things that give them the greatest benefit at the least cost

Question 10

Sense of duty

Answer 10

A motivating factor felt by some citizens to get involved in politics

Question 11

Social Learning Theory

Answer 11

People experience subtle rewards and punishments from the psychological attachments they form to particular people around them

Question 12

Transfer Theory

Answer 12

Transfer of attitudes from a narrow setting to a broader political setting

Question 13

Cognitive Development Theory

Answer 13

What people learn about politics depends on the stage of their mental development

Question 14

Inactives

Answer 14

Take no part in political life
-Lower status social and economic groups, African Americans, women, youngest and oldest, and least concerned about politics

Question 15

Voting Specialists

Answer 15

Only political involvement is through voting

Question 16

Parochial Participants

Answer 16

Contact public officials when they have a particular personal problem and seek governmental assistance in solving it.
-More common among lower stats groups, Catholics, and urban dwellers

Question 17

Communalists

Answer 17

Engage in group and community activities with the aim of solving social problems
-Highly involved in politics but nonpartisan (neither democrat or republican)

Question 18

Campaigners

Answer 18

Engage in little group activities, highly partisan

Question 19

Complete activists

Answer 19

They do it all–voting, contacting, group activities, and campaigning