Power

Question 1

Alienation

Answer 1

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.

Question 2

Authority

Answer 2

The power of those entitled to use it.

Question 3

Citizen

Answer 3

A full, legal member of a nation.

Question 4

Class alignment

Answer 4

Suggests a connection between voters’ class positions and their voting preferences.

Question 5

Class de-alignment

Answer 5

Suggests a weakening of the connection between class position and voting preference.

Question 6

Community

Answer 6

A set of individuals between whom there is a strong sense of identity. The individuals may or may not live in the same locality

Question 7

Consensus

Answer 7

Political consensus means those involved in government, of whatever party, share similar ideas about what governments should do.

Question 8

Conservatives

Answer 8

See radical change as dangerous and suggest that governments should reform institutions only when a clear need to do so had been established.

Question 9

Constituency

Answer 9

A geographical area that elects a single mp

Question 10

Deferential

Answer 10

an attitude based on the belief that people on the high social scale are superior and should be looked up to

Question 11

democracy

Answer 11

the political system that enables the people to elect those who will govern them

Question 12

Dictatorship

Answer 12

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

Question 13

direct action

Answer 13

political action, sometimes illegal, taken outside the normal political process

Question 14

First past the post

Answer 14

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

Question 15

globalisation

Answer 15

A process by which people, organisations and states become increasingly interdependent, both economically and culturally

Question 16

Interest groups

Answer 16

groups established to protect the interests of particular groups

Question 17

malestream

Answer 17

A word used by feminists to mean ‘mainstream’, thereby drawing attention to the gender bias of much language

Question 18

MP

Answer 18

A person elected to represent a constituency in the house of commons

Question 19

monarchy

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Nation state

Answer 20

an independent state whose inhabitants form a single national community

Question 21

national consensus

Answer 21

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

Question 22

new labour

Answer 22

developed in the mid 1990s to try and attract non traditional voters to vote for the labour party

Question 23

new social movement

Answer 23

an informal loosely organised coalition of individuals or groups supporting an interest or cause

Question 24

old labour

Answer 24

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

Question 25

opposition

Answer 25

the main party that is not in government

Question 26

patriarchy

Answer 26

the idea that men dominate society and it’s institutions

Question 27

political party

Answer 27

an organisation established to try and get its members or supporters elected to public office

Question 28

political socialisation

Answer 28

A process by which people learn political skills beliefs and values

Question 29

pressure group

Answer 29

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.

Question 30

pm

Answer 30

the head of the government in Britain. he or she is the leader of the majority party in the house of commons

Question 31

socialists

Answer 31

wish to create a society based on equality

Question 32

transnational companies

Answer 32

businesses that operate on a global scale, in many countries