Question

A newspaper runs stories that suggest that most people in the countrysupport cutting taxes. After reading the stories, people who support raisingtaxes tend to keep quiet because they think their neighbors all support taxcuts. This would be an example of which of the following?

a. agenda setting
b. spiral of silence
c. sociallearning
d. symbolic interactionism

Answer 1

Option B

Step-by-step explanation:

The spiral of silence was developed by the German political scientist Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann for political science and global communication. It notes that because of the views of the representatives, a peer group or community can separate to exclude participants.

It stipulates there is a dislike of loneliness among people. Press is also an important element affecting both the predominant concept as well as the understanding by people of what is the predominant concept.

Thus, from the above we can conclude that the correct option is B .