Chapter 3 Concepts

Question 1

A political ideology that stresses the elimination of the state and private property as a way to achieve both freedom and equality for all

Answer 1

Anarchism

Question 2

An individual’s relationship to the state, wherein citizens swear allegiance to that state and the state in return is obligated to provide rights to those citizens

Answer 2

Citizenship

Question 3

A political - economic system in which all wealth and property are shared so as to eliminate exploitation, oppression, and ultimately, the need for political institutions such as the state

Russia operates under this type of system

Answer 3

Communism

Question 4

Those with a political attitude that is skeptical of change and supports the current order

Answer 4

Conservatives

( make sure to throw out any preconceived notions about conservatism before the test, the US is not your baseline

Question 5

Basic institutions that define a society

can be a widespread thing or can be within anything that is a community

Answer 5

Culture

Question 6

A conflict in which different ethnic groups struggle to achieve certain political or economic goals at each other’s expense

Answer 6

Ethnic Conflict

Question 7

Specific attributes and localized societal institutions that make one group of people culturally different from others

Answer 7

Ethnicity
( Ethnic Identity works as well but the actual term is Ethnicity ).

Question 8

A political ideology that asserts the superiority and inferiority of different groups of people and stresses a low degree of both freedom and equality in order to achieve a powerful state

Hint: think that Italian guy that no one like they ended up killing in the streets.

Answer 8

Fascism

( the guy was Mussolini )

Question 9

A view of religion as absolute and inerrant and that it should be legally enforced by making faith the sovereign authority

terrorist groups that use religion as their justification can be referred to as this term, as can certain authoritarian regimes.

Answer 9

Fundamentalism/Fundament-alist

Question 10

A political system that promotes participation, competition, and liberty and emphasizes individual freedom and civil rights

Answer 10

Liberal Democracy

Question 11

A political attitude that favors evolutionary transformation, that believes in limited state role in society as well as in the economy

Answer 11

Liberalism

Question 12

Those with a political attitude that favors evolutionary change and who believe that existing institutions can be instruments of positive change.

Answer 12

Liberals

Question 13

A group that desires self - governance through an independent state

Answer 13

Nation

Question 14

A state encompassing one dominant nation that it claims to embody and represent

Answer 14

Nation - State

Question 15

A conflict in which one or more groups within a country develop clear aspirations for political independence, clashing with others as a result

Answer 15

National Conflict

Question 16

A sense of belonging to a nation and a belief in its political aspirations

in Iran support of the Ayatollah Khomeini could be considered __________

Answer 16

National Identity

( Khomeini would be considered this because during the reign of the shah the country was split between the nation of Islam and western influences.

Question 17

Pride in one’s people and the belief that they have a unique political destiny

Answer 17

Nationalism

Question 18

Pride in ones state

Putin riding on the back of the horse shirtless is an example of trying to incite _____ into the ways of the people

Answer 18

Patriotism

Question 19

Description of one’s views regarding the speed and methods with which political changes should take place in a given society.

Answer 19

Political attitude

Question 20

The basic norms for political activity in a society

Answer 20

Political culture

Question 21

The basic values held by an individual about the fundamental goals of politics or the ideal balance of freedom and equality

Answer 21

Political ideology

Question 22

Those with a political attitude that favors dramatic, often revolutionary change.

Answer 22

Radicals

Question 23

A political - economic system in which freedom and equality are balanced through the state’s management of the economy and the provisions of social expenditures

throughout most of history it is only referenced as a transitional period

Answer 23

Socialism/Social Democracy

Question 24

Those who seek to restore the institutions of a real or an imagined earlier order.

Answer 24

Reactionaries

Question 25

Complex human organizations; a collection of people bound by shared institutions that define how human relations should be conducted.

Answer 25

Society