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Pols Ch. 3
Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Atomization | The process of breaking a substance, liquid, or society down into tiny, seperate piece or individual units |
| Creosscutting Cleavages | Occurs when social, economic, or cultural divisioons in a society overlap and pull people in different directions, meaning that lines of political disaggreement do not line with one another |
| Legitimacy | The quality of being lawful, valid, or accepted as right and proper |
| Panopticon | A design where a single gurad in a central tower can watch all the inmates but the inmates cannot see that they are being watched |
| Peer policing | memebers of a group, community or organization, monitor, regulate, and enforce behavioral norms and rules among one another |
| Preference falsification | That act of publicly expressing an opinion, belif or desire that goes against what you actually or want in private |
| Pubic goods | A product or service that anyone can use without reducing its availibity to others and from which noone can be effectively excluded |
| Revolution | A sudeen,radical change in a system |
| Safty valve | refers to an outlet or release for pent-up stress, emotion, energy |
| Self-policing | where a group moniters its own behavior to ensure people follow the rules ( Ex. HOA/neighborhood watch ) |
| Totalitarian | Describes a centralized political system or government that strives for total control over all public and private aspects of citixens lives |
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