#19 Unit 3 Study Guide

Purpose: To help you understand the chapters.

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Directions: Use this guide to prepare for the test.

2 of these 6 questions will be on the test. Please be prepared to answer all of these short answer questions.
1. What is political socialization? What are the main ways that it occurs? Which is the most influential way in your opinion. 2. Why would politicians pay attention to polls? Why do average citizens pay attention to polls? What have polls revealed about the American people as a whole? What does this mean for American politics? 3. Describe the key differences between liberals and conservatives. Give an example from the course of each in the form of a person or aspect of government and explain how the example shows liberalism or conservatism. 4. Describe conventional and unconventional political participation. Which is the most effective? Why? Give an example from history to back up your opinion. Why are the poor likely to not participate in either one? 5. What are print media, broadcast media, narrowcast media, and social media? Which do you think has the greatest influence on politics? Why? 6. Why does the media have power in politics? Give at least two examples to support your thesis.

3 of the following words will need to be defined and the significance will have to be described.
Chapter 6 Census Reapportionment Demography Random Sampling Sampling error Liberal Conservative Chapter 7 Investigative Journalism Policy agenda Mass media Media bias