Definitions
Attitudes toward the political system and its various parts.
What is political culture?
Polling that can affect the outcome of elections and are taken in tandem with the actual voting.
What are exit/entry polls?
Networking among people
What is social capital?
A style of newspaper reporting that emphasized sensationalism over facts.
What is Yellow Journalism.
Speaking for the masses without being accountable or responsible. (Media role)
Public representative
Public ownership of means of production and exchange. A left wing perspective. Market economy w/ gov’t involvement.
Socialism
Surveying voters through "researching" telephone calls aimed to sway voter opinion.
What are Push Polls?
What are Demographics categories
Name 4
Gender, Occupation, Race, Religion, Social Class
What are the medias' Goals.
Making money, selling ads.
“Hired guns” or political persuaders, whose job is to promote the SIGS interests via pressure.
Lobbyists
Individual liberty + sharply limited government; isolationist; repeal all morality laws.
Libertarianism
What are the different poll sampling types?
Biased and representative.
A society's categorization of its people into rankings based on factors like wealth, income, education, etc.
What is social economic stratification (SES)?
An effective display of delivering political advice.
What is a political cartoon.
Who alerts the public? (media role)
The Signaler
Baby Boomers aging & going into retirement- taking up social security
What is "Gray Power"
Meant to check the pulse of potential voters before election day.
What are straw polls.
Who establishes our political value system?
a. SIGS
b. Political institutions
c. Media “The New Parent”
d. family
e. Social Econonic Stratification (SES) as one
grows older.
What are medias' functions. Name 3/4
Informing, guiding, interpreting, entertaining the public.
Who exposes the wrongdoings of any estate? (media role)
The Watch Dog
Private sector, Public Sector, Gov’t Sector, Media.
What are the 4 estates.
How do Polls assist politicians?
In detecting public preferences, shifts in thinking and policy making.
What are the main forms of political participation?
Name 4/8
Voting
Join SIGS
Give money to SIGS thru PACS
Become a political elite
Contacting gov’t officials on a regular basis
Working on a campaign
Civil disobedience
Violence
Who owns the media?
The 6 media giants.
Who gives politicians a channel to communicate with the public?(media role)
The Common Carrier