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American Gov. 9th ed
Chapter 5 vocabulary; Wilson & DiIlulio, Jr. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston NY
| Definition | Term |
|---|---|
| Colloquial term for average citizens and what they want or believe | John Q. Public |
| A phrase coined by Joseph Kraft in a 1968 newspaper column to refer to Americans who have moved out of poverty but are not yet affluent and who cherish traditional middle-class values | Middle America |
| A phrase used to describe people, whatever their economic status, who uphold traditional values, especially against the counterculture of the 1960s. | silent majority |
| A measure of one's social standing obtained by combining factors such as education, income, and occupation. | social status |
| The moral teachings of religious institutions on religious, social, and economic issues. | religious tradition |
| Differences in the political views and voting behavior of men and women. | gender gap |
| A survey of public opinion. | poll |
| A sample selected in such a way that any member of the population being surveyed (e.g. all adults or voters) has an equal chance of being interviewed. | random sample |
| In general, a person who favors a more active federal govt. for regulating business, supporting social welfare, and protecting minority rights, but who prefers less regulation of private social conduct. | liberal |
| In general a person who favors more limited and local govt., less govt. regulation of markets, more social conformity to traditional norms and values, and tougher policies toward criminals. | conservative |
| A more or less consistent set of views as to the policies govt. ought to pursue | political ideology |
| The difference between the results of two surveys/samples. (If one random sample shows that 60 percent of all Americans like cats & another random sample taken at the same time shows that 65 percent do, the sampling error is 5 percent.) | sampling error |
| People who wish to maximize personal liberty on both economic and social issues. They prefer a small, weak govt. that has little control over either the economy or the personal lives of citizens. | libertarians |
| ppl who hold liberal views on economic matters & conservative ones on social matters; prefer a strong gov. that will reduce economic inequality, regulate businesses, and impose stricter social and criminal sanctions | populists (origins of belief: agriculturally based social movement & party of the 1880s & 1890s that sought to curb the power of influential economic interests) |
| An identifiable group of persons who possess a disproportionate share of some weird resource-such as money or political power. | political elite |
| A standard of right or proper conduct that helps determine the range of acceptable social behavior and policy options. | norm |
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