Chapter Outlines
Chapter Six: Political Culture

Basic Concepts

• Political Culture: The Unwritten Constitution
• Cultures and Subcultures
• Is America Different?
• The American Creed
• American Political Ideologies: Liberalism and Conservatism
  
  

The Dark Side of American Politics

• Intolerance and the Pressure to Conform
• Distrust
• Paranoia and Conspiracy
  
  

Multiculturalism and American Political Culture

• The Melting Pot
• The Idea of Multiculturalism
• A Liberal Multiculturalism?
  
  

Debating the Constitution: Is America Different?