PLS 101 EXAM 2 MISSOURI STATE 2024 ACTUAL
EXAM QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED VERIFIED
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public opinion - (answers)The collective attitudes of citizens concerning a given
issue or question
characteristics of public opinion - (answers)1) The public's attitude toward a given
issue or policy can vary over time, often dramatically.
2) Public opinion places boundaries on allowable types of public policy
3) If asked by pollsters, citizens are willing to register opinions on matters outside
their experience
4) Governments tend to respond to public opinion
5) The government sometimes does not do what people want
political socialization - (answers)the complex process by which people acquire
their political values
How political socialization occurs - (answers)- Primacy ( what we learn first sticks
)
- Structuring ( what we learn first influences later learning )
Family
School
Community and Peers
Continuing Socialization
, 2
media, political figures
How different social groups differ on order and equality - (answers)education,
income, region and ethnicity/race, religion, gender
What are the ideology types how do they place on the freedom, order and equality
matrix - (answers)liberals are freedom over order then equality- conservatives are
freedom over equality and order over freedom- libertarians are freedom over both
equality and order, communitarians are the opposite of libertarians.
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) - (answers)regulates interstate and
international communication on radio, tv, satellite, telephone, telegraph, cable
Equal time or opportunities rule - (answers)Under the Federal Communications
Act of 1934, the requirement that if a broadcast station gives or sells time to a
candidate for any public office, it must make available an equal amount of time
under the same conditions to all other candidates for that office.
Right of rebuttal - (answers)a Federal Communications Commission regulation
giving individuals the right to have the opportunity to respond to personal attacks
made on a radio or television broadcast
Fairness doctrine - (answers)FCC rule (no longer in effect) that required
broadcasters to air a variety of viewpoints on their programs
prior restraint - (answers)government censorship of information before it is
published or broadcast