| Term | Definition |
|---|
| public opinion | teh distribution of the population's beliefs about politics and policy issues. |
| demography | The science of population changes. |
| census | A valuable tool for understanding demographic changes. Every 10 years. |
| melting pot | The mixing of cultures, ideas, and peoples that has changed the AMerican nation, The United States, with its history of immigration, has often been called a melting pot. |
| minority majority | The emergence of a non-caucasian majority, as compared with a White, generally Anglo-Saxonn majority. It is predicted that by about 2060, Hispanic Americans, African Americans and Asian Americans together will outnumber White Americans. |
| political culture | An overall set of values widely shared within a society |
| reapportionment | The process of reallocating seats in the House of Reps, every 10 years on the vasis of the results of the census. |
| political socialization | The process through which an individual acquires his or her particular political orientations. |
| sample | A relatively small proportion of people who are chosen in a survey so as to be representative of the whole. |
| random sampling | Operates on the principle that everyone should have an equal probability of bing selected for sample. |
| sampling error | The level of confidence in the findings of a public opinion poll. |
| random-digit dialing | A technique used bypollsters to place telephone calls randomly to both listed and unlisted numbers when conducting a survey. |
| exit poll | Public opinion surveys used by major media pollsters to predict electoral winners with speed and precision. |
| political ideology | A coherent set of beliefs about politics. public policy, andpublic purpose. IT helps give meaning to plitical events personalities, and policies |
| gender gap | A term that refers to the regular pattern in whih women are more likely to support Democratic candidates. |
| political participation | All activities used by citizens to influence the selection of political leaders or the policies they pursue. |
| protest | A form of political participation designed to achieve policy change. |
| civil disobedience | A form of political participation that reflects a conscious decision to break a law believed to be immoral an to suffer the consequences. |
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