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- 1. Multiple Choice
What term describes the process of creating a public value system?
Government propaganda
Political socialization
Civic acculturation
Political education
- 2. Multiple Choice
What are agencies of socialization?
The Department of American Socialization (DAS)
The Agencies for Social and Economic development
The family, school, religion and other social institutions that transmit values from one generation to the next
All the above
- 3. Multiple Choice
What socialization factor has the most influence in determining a person’s degree of political participation?
Family
Cable and Internet News
Religion
Education
- 4. Multiple Choice
Which socialization factor is the first to influence the political attitudes of individuals?
Family
The President
Elementary school teacher
Sesame Street
- 5. Multiple Choice
What is political efficacy?
The feeling that one’s politics beliefs are better than another’s.
The attachment a person has to a particular political party
The feeling that one’s political participation makes a difference
None of the above
- 6. Multiple Choice
What are demographics?
Demographics are the “measure of the people”
Demographics are the social indicators or socio-economic status (SES) of individuals in the population
Demographics indicate race, class, family, religion, residence, age, gender etc
All the above
- 7. Multiple Choice
What term describes how we define ourselves, define others and make sense of the world around us, and then pass these values from one generation to the next?
Collective memory
Culture
Socialization
None of the above
- 8. Multiple Choice
This theory of democracy says power is dispersed among competing groups having cross-cutting cleavages.
Pluralism
Elitism
Rational actor theory
All the above
- 9. Multiple Choice
Where in the Constitution does it protect the rights of the people to participate in politics and government?
The 1st Amendment
The 14th Amendment
The 15th Amendment
All the above
- 10. Multiple Choice
Which theory of participation says that power is concentrated in the hands of a few rich and powerful individuals?
Rational actor theory
Elitism
Pluralism
All the above
- 11. Multiple Choice
Which socialization factor manifests “the power of place?”
The school
The neighborhood bar
Geography
None of the above
- 12. Multiple Choice
Who wrote the “The Power Elite?”
C. Wright Mills
L. Ron Hubbard
Captain Morgan
None of the above
- 13. Multiple Choice
Which kind of education combs the social sciences, philosophies, and humanities?
Civic education
Liberal education
Public education
All the above
- 14. Multiple Choice
What term describes the beliefs and values that people will fight and die for?
Political culture
Citizenship
Collective memory
None of the above
- 15. Multiple Choice
What term describes the achievements, challenges, struggles, wars, and great historical events if a nation?
Political culture
Collective memory
Citizenship
None of the above
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