List, define, and assess the relative importance of the six agents of political socialization
What will be an ideal response?
An ideal response will:
1, List and define all six agents of political socialization: (1) family, (2) school, (3) peers and community, (4) religion, (5) the media, and (6) events.
2, Compare all six agents and their relative influence for shaping an individual's political socialization. Answer should include some scale for which agents are more or less significant in this process of political socialization.
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Congress tends to be most involved and assertive in foreign policy in
a. times of war. c. times of emergency. b. times of peace. d. times of disengagement.
In the former Yugoslavia,
a. the greatest ethnic divisions occurred in the cities. b. citizens of the cities saw themselves more as Yugoslavs than as members of ethnic minorities. c. people in the cities were able to avoid ethnic labeling once conflict broke out, unlike rural populations. d. intermarriage between different ethnic groups was very rare. e. conflict became more about economic status than about ethnicity or religion.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Sedition refers to sexual speech that has no significant literary, artistic, political or scientific value. 2. The Supreme Court usually upholds laws that are designed to punish a class of speech called fighting words. 3. The Supreme Court avoided tackling the issue of whether Americans could legally use contraception until their decision in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965). 4. The Supreme Court has consistently supported gay Americans’ right to privacy. 5. Barbour and Wright argue that obligations do not accompany rights.
The Constitution calls for the government to "promote the general Welfare" and "provide for the…general Welfare" in what two sections of the document?
A. Article I, Section 8 and Article II, Section 1 B. The Preamble and Article I, Section 8 C. Article I, Section 2 and Article III, Section 1 D. The Preamble and Article IV, Section 1 E. The Preamble and Article IV, Section 1 F. None of these are correct.