Notes from the week of November 17-21

Here are the notes from this week's class.

Chapter 5 Study Questions

Please discuss and complete these questions, and turn in your answers on or before December 4, when we will have a Test over Chapter 5 using the questions from Quizlet.

1. What is Political Socialization?  How does it normally occur for most people?

2.  What is meant by the term Public Opinion? What, in general terms, do most Americans think about issues of how the government is dealing with Education, Taxation and Entitlement Spending?

3. What is the difference between an intensely held political position, and a casually held position?  

4.  Which political party now controls House of Representatives?  Which controls the Senate?  

5.  “In a 2009 poll, 81% of Americans said they were either “extremely proud” or “very proud” to be an American.  This quote from the book illustrates what about public opinion in the United States?

6.  What is the basic tension in America over the relationship between Majority Rights and Minority Rights?

7.  What is equality?  Is it necessary that a society engenders equality?

8. How has your own personal political socialization taken place?  (Not what you believe, but how have you come to believe what you believe about politics)

9.  Compare and contrast Social Learning Theory, Transfer Theory, and Cognitive Development Theory.

10. As Christians, how involved should we be in politics?  Why?

Website for the 2015 Trip to Europe

Here is the website for our upcoming Europe Trip.

The price will be higher than listed because we are using the "In-City" option for rooms, and we are attempting to add an excursion to Normany.

Notes can finally be posted here...Thank God!

To access the notes from this week, just click here.

New Government-Economics Website

The website we have been using has become unwieldy...so I have created this new site for your class.

Welcome to the new site

Please feel free to make suggestion for improving it as the year progresses