What are demographic characteristics, and how are they linked to political beliefs and actions?

What will be an ideal response?


The ideal answer should include:
1. Demographic characteristics, sometimes called personal characteristics, include both visible characteristics, such as age, gender, and ethnicity, and less visible ones, such as education, income, social class, and occupation. These characteristics, when taken together, might be thought of as an individual's identity.
2. Demographic characteristics can be thought of as filters that influence how the environment and the agents of political socialization affect an individual's political behavior.

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For medical situation, participants were randomly assigned to one of three levels. For physician prescription action, participants were randomly assigned to one of two conditions. In this example, the variable of medical situation is a __________ subjects variable. a. between b. within c. mixed d. factorial

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Sometimes science seems to go through a period of chaos where the current beliefs, concepts and practices, or fundamental beliefs that are typically shared by scientists are questioned and start being replaced by another set of fundamental beliefs

This period is referred to by Kuhn as ___________ science. a. cautionary b. paradigmatic c. revolutionary d. proactive

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When using primary data, what steps must be taken to ensure that the data quality is high, both during data entry and during data cleaning stages? What technologies facilitate both?

What will be an ideal response?

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Which of the following is NOT one of the criteria identified by the UN High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change for legitimate intervention?

a. There is a sufficiently clear and serious threat to warrant the use of force. b. The primary purpose of the use of force may be to stop the threat through regime change. c. The use of force against the threat is the last resort. d. The use of force is proportionate and the minimum necessary to mitigate the threat.

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