Agre Homework

1. What is the central problem for citizens in democracies?
The way of participating meaningfully in the huge society.

2. What skills do citizens need?
Building social capital and participating in the collective production and circulation of political arguments.

3. What term does the author use to describe the process citizens use to promote their concerns about an issue?
To make realize people understand the issue is related to them.

4. What steps are the four steps in this process?
Identifying issues that are coming to prominence, researching and analyzing them, staking out public positions on them, building social networks of other citizens.

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Write two of your own questions on the ideas and issues raised in this section.
If actually all political things are constructed in the same process, why the problem people cannot participating them occur?

How to make into practice to access to the skills? What should we do first?