Socioeconomic status is the position of an individual or group on the socioeconomic scale, which is determined by a combination of social and economic factors such as income, amount and kind of education, type and prestige of occupation, place of residence, and—in some societies or parts of society—ethnic origin or religious background.
Examinations of socioeconomic status often reveal inequities in access to resources, as well as issues related to privilege, power, and control.
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This paper develops a resource model of political participation. The resources considered are time, money, and civic skills--those communications and organizational capacities that are essential to political activity. These skills are not only acquired early in life but developed in the nonpolitical institutional settings of adult life: the workplace, organizations, and churches and synagogues. These resources are distributed differentially among groups defined by socioeconomic status. A two-stage least squares analysis shows these resources have powerful effects on overall political activity, thus explaining why socioeconomic status has traditionally been so powerful in predicting participation. We disaggregate overall activity into three kinds of acts: those that involve giving time, those that entail donating money, and voting. Each requires a different configuration of resources resulting in different patterns of stratification across various political acts.
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All of the following are ways through which citizens learn about politics except
(A) Religious institutions
(B) Schools
(C) Workplace culture
(D) Mass media
(E) Regulatory agencies
(E) Regulatory agencies
Which of the following is
generally the most significant influence on an individual's identification with a particular political party?
(A) Religious affiliation
(B) Family
(C) Level of education
(D) Television
(E) The party identification of the incumbent president
(B) Family
Which of the following best describes the relationship between socioeconomic status and participation in politics?
(A) The lower one's
socioeconomic status, the more likely it is that one will run for public office.
(B) The higher one's socioeconomic status, the greater the probability of active involvement in the political process.
(C) Adults who are unemployed have a greater personal interest in policy and tend to participate more actively in politics than do employed adults.
(D) People in the lower socioeconomic status are the most likely to vote.
(E) There is no relationship between socioeconomic status and
political participation.
(B) The higher one's socioeconomic status, the greater the probability of active involvement in the political process.
Which of the following is the strongest determinant of an individual's voting behavior?
(A) His or her socioeconomic background
(B) Suggestions from family members
(C) Newspaper and media endorsements
(D) Political party affiliation
(E) His or her
opinions on policy issues
(D) Political party affiliation
All of the following criteria must be met to become of citizen of the United States except
(A) Being able to speak, read, and write English
(B) Spending a period of time residing in the United States
(C) Being sponsored by a United States citizen
(D) Having a commitment to the principles of the U.S. Constitution
(E) Having knowledge of
American history and government
(C) Being sponsored by a United States citizen
A graph denoting public opinion that reveals a bell curve with the fewest numbers of people being of extreme opinion on either end of the graph and the greatest number in the middle is representative of
(A) Bimodal opinion
(B) Consensus opinion
(C) Divided opinion
(D) Random sampling
(E) Normal distribution
(E) Normal distribution
Closely held ideas that support values and expectations about life and politics are called
(A) Subcultures
(B) Public opinion
(C) Valence issues
(D) Variation
(E) Beliefs
(E) Beliefs
One important change in political culture since the Second World War is that United States citizens have become
(A)
less trusting of governmental institutions and leaders
(B) less likely to think of themselves as ideologically moderate
(C) less likely to support civil rights
(D) more likely to believe that their actions can influence government policy
(E) more trusting of nongovernmental institutions and leaders
(A) less trusting of governmental institutions and leaders
Which of the following contemporary
political ideologies posits that government power should be used to promote individual economic security and redistribute resources, but rejects the notion that government should favor a particular set of social values?
(A) Liberalism
(B) Conservatism
(C) Communitarianism
(D) Libertarianism
(E) Elitism
(A) Liberalism
Of the following list of ideologies, Americans are most likely to identify
with
(A) Communism
(B) Conservatism
(C) Totalitarianism
(D) Libertarianism
(E) Authoritarianism
(B) Conservatism
The differences between the political attitudes of men and women are referred to as
(A) the political gap
(B) the gender gap
(C) partisan politics
(D) party loyalty
(E) the median voter theory
(B) the gender gap
Which of the following best defines political culture?
(A) It is the process by which one acquires opinions about government.
(B) It is the shared attitudes of a people regarding government.
(C) It is the belief that no one person can effect change in government.
(D) It is the willingness of people to accept government's right to rule.
(E) It is a statement by government officials about how citizens should behave.
(B) It is the shared attitudes of a people regarding government.
When the media calls out every candidates' moves throughout the presidential campaign this is called
(A) The bandwagon effect
(B) Horserace coverage
(C) Exit polling
(D) The elite effect
(E) The elastic clause
(B) Horserace coverage
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