Chapter 16 Vocab

Decision-Making Process

• Decision making can be regarded as the cognitive process
• resulting in the selection of a course of action among several alternative scenariost item here
• Every decision making process produces a final choice.
• The output can be an action or an opinion of choice.

Government Policy

• Public policy is the principled guide to action takent item here
• by the administrative executive branches of the state
• with regard to a class of issues in a manner consistent
• with law and institutional customs. ...

point of view

Cultural Beliefs

• The totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions
• Culture is learned and shared within social groups and is transmitted by nongenetic means.
• the beliefs followed by a specific culture

Patriotism

nation

• socio-cultural entity, a union of people sharing who can identify culturally and linguistically
• does not necessarily consider formal political unions.

state

• a legal/political entity that is comprised of the following
• a) a permanent population
• b) a defined territory
• c) a government
• d) the capacity to enter into relations with other states.

nation-state

• is one where the great majority are conscious of a common identity
• and share the same culture

NAtionalism