Chapter 8

2. site posting usually devoted to some specific subjets.
4. opinion:Can be described this way: those attitude help by a significant number of people on matter of government and politics.
6. representative slice of the total universe.
7. vote:Variety. that is they were polls that sought to read the public's mind simply by asking the same question of a large number of people.
9. opinion poll:Devices that attempt to collect information by asking peoplequestions.
12. group: When a child enters school, friends and classmates become important agents in shoping his or her attitudes and behavior.
13. leader:Also bear heavily on the formation of public opinion.
14. a term that means the whole population that the poll aims to measure.
15. to the intructions or commands a constituency gives to its elected offcials.

1. affairs:To be a public opinion, a view must involve something of general concern and of interest to a significant portion of the people as a whole.
3. sample:Is one deliberately constructed to reflect the major characteristics of a given universe
4. agenda:The societal problems that the nation's political leaders and the general public.
5. media:Include those means of communication that reach large widely dispersed audiences (masses of people)simultaneously.
6. bites:Snappy reports that can be aired in 30 or 45 second or so.
8. sample: Is composed of vandomly selected people and so it is one in which all the members of its universe.
10. group:These organizations are also very aptly know as pressure groups ans special interest group.
11. Is a means of communications it transmits some kind of information.