A newspaper runs stories that suggest that most people in the country support cutting taxes. After reading the stories, people who support raising taxes tend to keep quiet because they think their neighbors all support tax cuts. This would be an example of which of the following? a. agenda setting. b. spiral of silence. c. social learning. d. symbolic interactionism.

Spiral of silence

Explanation:

The spiral of silence theory states that people remain silent regarding a topic when they feel that their views are in opposition with the rest of the majority.

As stated in the question, the newspaper's stories suggest that majority of the people support cutting taxes, this leads people who supoort raising taxes to not air their opinions because they think that everyone else supports cutting taxes like the papers say.

B.

Explanation:

Spiral of silence is a theory in political science and mass communication, proposed by the German political scientist Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann.

It states that a social group or society might isolate or exclude members due to the members' opinions.

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