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terms and concepts
american History 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| when one party's desires influences another's behavior | Influence |
| the ability to get people to do something they do not want to do | power |
| the right to excercise power and influence which comes from being plced in a position of accepted procedure such as traditional appointed or elected | Authority |
| the favoring of complete subjection to authority as opposed to individual freedom | Authoriatarianism |
| political system in which the powers of the ruler are virtually unlimited | Authoriatarian system |
| a government in which a few people posses unlimited power | Autocracy |
| when few people create the policies followed by others | Dictatorship |
| the condition of being considered correctly placed in role, and to be carrying out the function correctly. | Legitimacy |
| refers to a select few | An Elite |
| the view that power is held by few, rather than the masses of people | Elite theory |
| C.W. mills theory whereby big businessmen, members of the presidents cabinet, and high level military commanders effectively run the U.S. | The Power Elite |
| In sociology maintains that the social order is brought about by the agreement on values by which the members of society live. | Order Theory |
| the concept of society as a socialsystem characterized by cohesion, consensus, cooperation, reciprocity,persistence and stability. | The Order Model Perspective |
| the view that certain forms of freedom of expression are absolutely protected by the 1st amendment from government encroachment. | The Absolutist Theory of free Speech |
| body of people working together in a structured way to achieve a specific purpose | An Organization |
| structure with functions and has well specified roles and rules | An Institution |
| a sub group within an institutionlike churches and armies that take special responsibility for the institutions political interest. | An Institutional group |
| a set of institutions which are run by government. | A State |
| Large group of people who feel that they belong together by sharing one or more traits like culture or language or a set of traditions. | A Nation |
| the favoring of unity, independence, national interests and domination by a nation. | Nationalism |
| the theory that the best way to prevent war is to ensure that the major nations of the world remain roughly balanced in the power each has to wage war sucessfully | Balance of power |
| a popular expression of a philosophy or way of looking at the world | Ideology |
| to transfer ownership of a company or of land | to Nationalize |
| to put publicly owned corporations under private control | To privatize |
| means of shielding those in power from taking responsibility | Blaming the victim |
| private ownership of means of production and the unequal distribution of wealth | capitalism |
| a conservative who wants to go back to the way things used to be | A reactionary |
| the support for the way things are | conservatism |
| wants continuous improvements and reform in the political system | A Progressive |
| A Government by and for the people | Democracy |
| Usually involves the proposing of reforms with the idea of improving conditions for the people | Liberalism |
| Advocate greater freedom of thought and action | Liberals |
| the public ownership of means of production and governmental promotion of a trend toward economic equality as well as social and political equality | Socialism |
| The envisioning of things as they should be or are wished to be rather than as they are. | Idealism |
| Holds that matter or the behavior of people and the conditions in an economic system are basic in the formation of ideas about the system. | Materialism |
| the group theory of politics which maintains that public policy is the outcome of competing group pressures on the political institutions | Pluralism |
| maintains that an elite of the U.S. upper class dominates the key policy making positions in U.S. society | The power elite Theory |
| Refers to concrete facts suposedly free of values and biases | Empirical |
| an injection of one's values into one's analysis and descriptions | Normative |
| maintains that one should be value free in research and in representation of conclusions | Positivism |
| the theory that people sometimes do not even support views and programs which are in their own class interest | False consciousness |
| refers to an economy based on a mixture of public and private ownership of the means of production | mixed economy |
| the theory favored by supporters of capitalism which maintains that foreigh investments of corporations are industrializing the developing nations by making technology available, and by promoting economic progress. | The Theory of Modernization |
| states that African, Asian, and Latin American countries have become economically poor because the rich investing nation has taken the lions share of the profits out of these countries, often leaving these countries unable to feed themselves. | The Theory of Underdevelopment |
| the policy and practice of forming and maintaining a empire by the conquest of other countries and the establishing of colonies. | Imperialism |
| refers to political and economic, having the same fundamental materils as well as the same rights under laws. | Equality |
| A person that believes that all people should have equal social, political, and economic rights. | Equalitarian or Egalitarian |
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