AP US Gov/Pol chapter 6 vocabulary

chapter 6 vocabulary terms

	distribution of the population's beliefs about politics and policy issues.
	science of population changes.
	valuable tool for understanding demographic changes; required by the Constitution for the government to conduct one of these "actual enumerations" every ten years.
	mixing of cultures, ideas, and peoples that has changed the American nation; term given to the United States because of its history of immigration.
	emergence of a non-Caucasian majority, as compared with a White, generally Anglo-Saxon majority.
	overall set of values widely shared within a society.
	process of reallocating seats in the House of Representatives every ten years on the basis of the results of the census.
	"...process through which an individual acquires his [or her] particular political orientations—his [or her] knowledge, feelings, and evaluations regarding his [or her] political world," according to Richard Dawson.
	relatively small proportion of people who are chosen in a survey so as to be representative of the whole.
	key technique employed by sophisticated survey researchers, which operates on the principle that everyone should have an equal probability of being selected for the sample.
	level of confidence in the findings of a public opinion poll; a higher level of confidence results from more people interviewed.
	technique used by pollsters to place telephone calls randomly to both listed and unlisted numbers when conducting a survey.
	public opinion surveys used by major media pollsters to predict electoral winners with speed and precision.
	coherent set of beliefs about politics, public policy, and public purpose; gives meaning to political events, personalities, and policies.
	term that refers to the regular pattern by which women are more likely to support Democratic candidates, which is because women tend to be significantly less conservative than men, are more likely to support spending on social service, and oppose higher levels of military spending.
	all of the activities used by citizens to influence the selection of political leaders or the policies that they pursue; voting is said to be the most common type of this in a democracy.
	form of political participation designed to achieve policy change through dramatic and unconventional tactics.
	form of political participation that reflects a conscious decision to break a law believed to be immoral and to suffer the consequences.