Section 1: The Formation of Public Opinion
Click on the links and answer the questions that follow each link:
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/482436/public-opinion
1. What is public opinion?
2. What does the American Sociologist Charles Horton Cooley emphasize public opinion as?
3. How did the American political scientist V.O. Key define public opinion?
Watch this video and answer the following questions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aGD4j3HTJM
1. Why must successful politicians care about public opinion?
2. Which author considers public opinion to form a pyramid from the most stable views to the most flexible views?
3. What three central elements does the public opinion contain?
http://www.ushistory.org/gov/4b.asp
1. What factors contribute to American political attitudes and behavior?
2. What factor is generally the first and most enduring influence on a young persons developing political opinions?
3. Why did women's public opinions shift from Republicans to Democrats in the 1960’s?
http://dailyquail.org/2011/06/03/how-the-media-can-help-shape-public-opinion/
1. How is the media actually powerful?
2. What kinds of messages to media outlets give?
3. How can mass media have a positive effect on people?
http://www.google.com/imgres?q=public+opinion&num=10&um=1&hl=en&biw=1366&bih=667&tbm=isch&tbnid=dptLY0JYergEGM:&imgrefurl=http://pcj.typepad.com/planning_commissioners_jo/2009/08/public-opinion.html&docid=tveEDuu4MA7oTM&imgurl=http://pcj.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341bf9ae53ef0120a51dba07970c-800wi&w=350&h=266&ei=jg9yT_-hNcmW2AWZ-JnNDg&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=601&sig=105227143031508481685&sqi=2&page=1&tbnh=133&tbnw=173&&ndsp=21&ved=1t:429,r:10,s:0&tx=57&ty=84
4. How does this cartoon show the dangers of the media?
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/How-Public-Opinion-Is-Formed.topicArticleId-65383,articleId-65494.html
1. How do Americans have a tremendous amount of information about politics available to them?
2. How do individuals base their response to a problem?
3. What is another way of looking at public opinions and what is the definition of this concept?
http://ksspaulding.wordpress.com/article/attitudes-and-attitude-change-3smazt4fj02nv-16/
1. Who are naturally opinionated?
2. When do we start forming likes and dislikes?
3. What is an attitude?
4. What is an attitude object?
5. What are the three different parts in which an attitude can be broken down into which creates an evaluation of the attitude object?
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/482436/public-opinion
1. What is public opinion?
2. What does the American Sociologist Charles Horton Cooley emphasize public opinion as?
3. How did the American political scientist V.O. Key define public opinion?
Watch this video and answer the following questions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aGD4j3HTJM
1. Why must successful politicians care about public opinion?
2. Which author considers public opinion to form a pyramid from the most stable views to the most flexible views?
3. What three central elements does the public opinion contain?
http://www.ushistory.org/gov/4b.asp
1. What factors contribute to American political attitudes and behavior?
2. What factor is generally the first and most enduring influence on a young persons developing political opinions?
3. Why did women's public opinions shift from Republicans to Democrats in the 1960’s?
http://dailyquail.org/2011/06/03/how-the-media-can-help-shape-public-opinion/
1. How is the media actually powerful?
2. What kinds of messages to media outlets give?
3. How can mass media have a positive effect on people?
http://www.google.com/imgres?q=public+opinion&num=10&um=1&hl=en&biw=1366&bih=667&tbm=isch&tbnid=dptLY0JYergEGM:&imgrefurl=http://pcj.typepad.com/planning_commissioners_jo/2009/08/public-opinion.html&docid=tveEDuu4MA7oTM&imgurl=http://pcj.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341bf9ae53ef0120a51dba07970c-800wi&w=350&h=266&ei=jg9yT_-hNcmW2AWZ-JnNDg&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=601&sig=105227143031508481685&sqi=2&page=1&tbnh=133&tbnw=173&&ndsp=21&ved=1t:429,r:10,s:0&tx=57&ty=84
4. How does this cartoon show the dangers of the media?
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/How-Public-Opinion-Is-Formed.topicArticleId-65383,articleId-65494.html
1. How do Americans have a tremendous amount of information about politics available to them?
2. How do individuals base their response to a problem?
3. What is another way of looking at public opinions and what is the definition of this concept?
http://ksspaulding.wordpress.com/article/attitudes-and-attitude-change-3smazt4fj02nv-16/
1. Who are naturally opinionated?
2. When do we start forming likes and dislikes?
3. What is an attitude?
4. What is an attitude object?
5. What are the three different parts in which an attitude can be broken down into which creates an evaluation of the attitude object?