Political Socialization

What term describes the process of creating a public value system?

• Government propaganda

• Political socialization

• Civic acculturation

• Political education

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

What socialization factor has the most influence in determining a person’s degree of political participation?

• Family

• Cable and Internet News

• Religion

• Education

Which socialization factor is the first to influence the political attitudes of individuals?

• Family

• The President

• Elementary school teacher

• Sesame Street

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

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

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

This theory of democracy says power is dispersed among competing groups having cross-cutting cleavages.

• Pluralism

• Elitism

• Rational actor theory

• All the above

Where in the Constitution does it protect the rights of the people to participate in politics and government?

• The 1^st Amendment

• The 14^th Amendment

• The 15^th Amendment

• All the above

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