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Question
1. According to the author, politics and ______ are both presented in much the same way.
A. documentaries
B. horror films
C. comedy shows
D. soap operas
2. News is driven by which of the following?
A. the drive to report reliable information
B. the drive to make money
C. the drive to bring news into the homes of everyone
D. the drive to make a difference
3. Which of the following is considered to be an agent of socialization?
A. religion
B. money
C. parents
D. law
4. According to the author, one constant throughout the definitions of culture is that ______.
A. it is based on history
B. it is shared by a group
C. it is only applied to indigenous communities
D. it is considered politically incorrect
5. According to the author, the vast portion of political information in one's head comes to them through ______.
A. their education
B. their family
C. the news
D. the church
6. Which of the following statements pertaining to political culture is true?
A. Most political scientists know how to factor culture into the study of politics.
B. Culture is not typically ignored by political scientists.
C. Many political scientists argue that culture covers what cannot yet be explained through other factors.
D. Political culture is a simple, explainable concept.
7. Framing occurs when politicians do which of the following?
A. blame others in order to escape blame themselves
B. provide only the outlines for a bill and allow the government to fill in the details
C. predispose people to interpret facts by carefully choosing and building a conceptual framework
D. retire from politics to take jobs with the news media
8. Which of the following is the problem with using culture to explain political phenomena?
A. Such an explanation is seductively simple and seems to cover everything, but in truth culture is neither simple nor universal.
B. Culture never seems to work as an explanation for political phenomena.
C. John Kenneth Galbraith demonstrated that culture has a minimal impact in contrast to the power of feminism as an explanation.
D. Because culture is defined so precisely, it is difficult to find enough examples of it to allow an accurate measurement of its effects.
9. What is the term for the set of instinctual and learned filters our minds use in sorting and processing the mass of incoming information?
A. mediated reality
B. cognitive frameworks
C. constructed frameworks
D. framing dimensions
10. Which political theorist wrote The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, in which he emphasized that culture is a central determining factor in politics, society, and economics?
A. Karl Marx
B. Immanuel Kant
C. Max Weber
D. Maori
11. The premise of dramatic story structures are action and change driven by ______.
A. sex
B. conflict
C. love
D. power