Power Flashcards
Learn for 26th Sept
Alienation
Expresses the idea of separation. A sense of powerlessness is part of alienation. At work an employee may have no power to decide how a job will be done or how quickly to work. A citizen may feel powerless to influence the government.
Authority
The power of those entitled to use it.
Citizen
A full, legal member of a nation.
Class alignment
Suggests a connection between voters’ class positions and their voting preferences.
Class de-alignment
Suggests a weakening of the connection between class position and voting preference.
Community
A set of individuals between whom there is a strong sense of identity. The individuals may or may not live in the same locality
Consensus
Political consensus means those involved in government, of whatever party, share similar ideas about what governments should do.
Conservatives
See radical change as dangerous and suggest that governments should reform institutions only when a clear need to do so had been established.
Constituency
A geographical area that elects a single mp
Deferential
an attitude based on the belief that people on the high social scale are superior and should be looked up to
democracy
the political system that enables the people to elect those who will govern them
Dictatorship
A political system in which power is concentrated in the hands of an individual or small group who have not been fairly or freely elected
direct action
political action, sometimes illegal, taken outside the normal political process
First past the post
the voting system in which the candidate who gains more votes than any of his or her rivals in a constituency is elected to be an mp
globalisation
A process by which people, organisations and states become increasingly interdependent, both economically and culturally
Interest groups
groups established to protect the interests of particular groups
malestream
A word used by feminists to mean ‘mainstream’, thereby drawing attention to the gender bias of much language
MP
A person elected to represent a constituency in the house of commons
monarchy
A political system that has a hereditary Head of State. Britain is a constitutional monarchy in which the monarchs power is exercised by the pm
Nation state
an independent state whose inhabitants form a single national community
national consensus
A survey conducted on behalf of the government once every ten years. data that is collected from every house hold in the country provides detailed information about our way of life
new labour
developed in the mid 1990s to try and attract non traditional voters to vote for the labour party
new social movement
an informal loosely organised coalition of individuals or groups supporting an interest or cause
old labour
sees it’s main aim as protecting the interests of working people. it’s approach to politics is based on working class values of solidarity
opposition
the main party that is not in government
patriarchy
the idea that men dominate society and it’s institutions
political party
an organisation established to try and get its members or supporters elected to public office
political socialisation
A process by which people learn political skills beliefs and values
pressure group
A group, usually concerned with a single issue which applies pressure to try to bring about change. unlike political parties pressure groups do not wish to form governments.
pm
the head of the government in Britain. he or she is the leader of the majority party in the house of commons
socialists
wish to create a society based on equality
transnational companies
businesses that operate on a global scale, in many countries
