exam 3 Flashcards

1
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ability to achieve ones goal despite objection from other, and the ability to cause to behave in way that they would otherwise would of done

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Power

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2
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power that seems to be legitimate

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Authority

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3
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power that is not legitimate

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Coercive force

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4
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legitimate social institution for the equitation and exercise of power with a person or group

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Politics

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5
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Formal organization with legal and political authority to regulate relationships among members is the society and between society and those outside those borders

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government

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6
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four groups of government

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primary, secondary, social network, and formal organization

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7
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small personal group with no goal

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primary groups

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8
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large impersonal and with a goal

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secondary

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9
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loosely group of people that stay in touch

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social network

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10
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designed for a specific goal

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formal organization

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11
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political intently position of monopoly over the use of force within its territory and to achieve their goal

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State

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12
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functionalism

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pluralist model

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13
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power is widely distributed between special interest group or lobbies

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pluralist model

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14
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conflict Theory

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Elite Model

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15
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power is highly concentrated in the hands of a small number of global industrialists
controls “productive wealth”

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Elite Model

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16
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three levels of Elite Model

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power-elite
government
mass public

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17
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extremely powerful, 1%

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power elite

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18
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powerful

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government

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19
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relatively powerless

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mass public

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20
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C. Wright Mills came up with ______

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power elite

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21
Q

Max Weber came up with ______

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legitimating authority

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22
Q

three types of legitimating authority

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Traditional Authority
Charismatic Authority
Rational-Legal Authority

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23
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Power that legitimated on long standing customs and practices

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Traditional

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24
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examples of traditional authority

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monarchy

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25
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power is passed from generation to generation within a family

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monarchy

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26
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power made legitimated based on the person personality characteristics

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charismatic

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27
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power that is legitimated from rules, regulation, and procedure

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Rational-legal authority

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28
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logistical apparatus to engage in US politics, formulates and disseminating party platform

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political parities

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29
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party ideological justification why power should obtain and sustained

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party platform

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30
Q

Political parties obtains ____________ as the primary source for funds

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corporate contribution

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31
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two primary functions for third parties

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informer

spoiler

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32
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exert pressure on mainstream parties to recognized certain issues

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informer

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33
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divert critical votes away from certain candidates in certain political contests

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spoiler

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34
Q

traditional
Fashioned after the past
Favoring the preservation and regard proposals for change with distrust
Moderate, prudent, cautious

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conservative

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35
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Conservative is the ___________ party

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republican

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36
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Progessive
Fashioned towards the future
Non-revolutionary progress
Favor the freedom of individuals to act or express themselves in a manner of their own choosing

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Liberal

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37
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Liberals is the ________ party

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democrats

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38
Q

TRUE/FALSE
Both parties have appropriated liberal and conservative positions as convenient to effectively management of public opinion.

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True

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39
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who came up with economic and social dimensions of political belief and action

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Robert Merton

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40
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Conservative on social issues and on economics issue
Conservative on social issue but NOT on economic issues
Liberal on social issues and on economic issues
Liberal on social issues and NOT on economic issues

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Economic and Social Dimension of Political Belief and Action

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41
Q

We live in the ________

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Federal Republic of the Unite States

42
Q

Study of population size, composition, and distribution

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Demography

43
Q

Three major concerns for demography

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birth
death
movement

44
Q

actual level of childbearing for an individual, a household, or for a population

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fertility

45
Q

fertility rate required a sustain static population is 2

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replacement rate

46
Q

ability to bear children

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fecundity

47
Q

incidence of death in a population

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mortality

48
Q

number of deaths/1000 people in a population in a given year

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crude death rate

49
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fertility rate required a sustain static population is 2`

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replace rate

50
Q

of lives birth/1000 people in a population in a given year

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crude birth rate

51
Q

of lives birth/1000 women in a given age group, in a population in a given year

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age specific birth rate

52
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of males/ 100 females in a population in a given year

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sex ration

53
Q

of death of infants/1000 live birth in a given year

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infant mortality rate

54
Q

IMR gives accurate picture of the country’s

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health care and nutrition systems

55
Q

Which first world nation has the highest infant mortality rate?

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United states

56
Q

US is the only first world nation without ________.

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all inclusive national health care insurance system

57
Q

movement into or out of a given area in order to change residence

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migration

58
Q

the total # of migration - the total # of emigrants

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net # of migrants

59
Q

the net # of migration/1000 people in a given year

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crude net migration rate

60
Q

______ is the number one contribution factors to the increase of the US population

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legal immigration

61
Q

US fertility rate

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2.2

62
Q

what is the global population

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7 billion

63
Q

_______ more people are born on earth than die each day

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over 179,000

64
Q

population growth-if left uncheck-will doom us all

positive attitude through natural disaster, war, ect.

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Malthusian Perspective

65
Q

eventually population will exceed available food supply

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Malthus argument

66
Q

population will grow

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geometrically

67
Q

food supply will grow

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arithmetically

68
Q

Malthus checks to population

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positive checks & preventative checks

69
Q

famine, disease, war

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positive checks

70
Q

postponement of marriage, sexual abstinence

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preventative checks

71
Q

Marx _______ with Malthus

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disagreed

72
Q

Through technology, food supply can be increased to deal with growing population

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Marx’ argument

73
Q

Marx thinks overpopulation occurs because _____

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capitalists desire a surplus of worker

74
Q

overpopulation is most dangerous not due to potential stravatoin, bu t because of its intensified harm to the ecological environment and the earth’s biosphere

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the Neo-Malthus Perspective

75
Q

With Neo-Malthus perspective population growth is

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exponential

76
Q

reproduction should be limited to the maximum number necessary for replacement

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zero population movement

77
Q

Neo-Malthusisanism initiated and support the ZPG encouraging couples to have ____________ children, or fewer.

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no more than two

78
Q

graphic linear representation of nations population by age and sex

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population pyramid

79
Q

makes references to any sig. and measureable changes within a given population

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demographic transition

80
Q

Stages of Demographic

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pre-industrial
early industrial
industrial
post industrial

81
Q

small population remains stable in site due to the balance of high fertility rate and high mortality rate

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pre-industrial

82
Q

increased basic knowledge on nutrition, cooking safety, an hygiene together with the intro of previously unknown medical technology cause a sharp reduction in mortality

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Early industrial

83
Q

children are increasingly seen as liabilities and fertility rates begin to go down. While population growth continues, it becomes progressively slower

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industrial

84
Q

fertility rates and mortality rates stabilize at low level with large population

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post industrial

85
Q

universal functions of war

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internal redistribution of power
international re-allocation
upward redistribution of national wealth

86
Q

major function of war is disempowerment of general populace

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internal redistribution of power

87
Q

movement form a leadership post within one “community” in the MIC to a leadership post within another is frequent and normal

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Revolving door effect

88
Q

initiation of war is motivated by the re-allocation of resources

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Re-allocation of resources

89
Q

makes reference to a social or political position, or belief system

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ideology

90
Q

talk designed to justify some existing or desired set of power-relations

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justification rhetoric

91
Q

war is an _______

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ideology

92
Q

war requires

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intention destruction of property
premediated annihilation of human life
coercive reorganization of major social and economic system

93
Q

governmental form characterized by excessive corporate influence over government decision making processes, intolerance, and the systematic repression o nonconformity

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fascism

94
Q

collectively held and controlled national funding of social entitlement programs, parks and wildlife reserve system, national highways and infrastructure

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public sector

95
Q

banking institutions, corporation, companies, businesses, and private investors

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private sectors

96
Q

government regulation nd funding that is subject to democratic approval of the electorate and citizenry

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public control

97
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action, regulation, and funding that is not subject to democratic approval of the electorate or citizenry

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private control

98
Q

public sector funding

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taxes

99
Q

private sectors funding

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profits

100
Q

war moves large amounts of money from the public to the private sector

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upward redistribution of wealth

101
Q

process of upward redistribution of national wealth

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money is borrowed from banks
money is paid to contractors
interest is paid to banks
money is collected through tax revenue