Terms Quiz #1

Question 1

Political Science

Answer 1

The study of power

Question 2

Naturalize

Answer 2

To make things appear normal/natural or the way things are

Question 3

Hegemony

Answer 3

A web of power systems that dominates and organizes our lives to understand the world and ourselves in a particular way

Question 4

Ethics

Answer 4

Ideas and values on how we should live

Question 5

Blowback

Answer 5

CIA terms for unintended consequences of policies that were kept secret from the American people

Question 6

Elite

Answer 6

The 1%ers who control governments and central banks

Question 7

Corporate globalization

Answer 7

Movement towards the privatization of the planet for the benefit of corporate ownership and interests

Question 8

Corporatocracy

Answer 8

A society or system that is governed or controlled by corporations

Question 9

Imperialism

Answer 9

The process whereby the dominant politico-economic interests of one nation expropriate for their own enrichment the land, labor, raw materials, and markets of other people

Question 10

Configuration of Power (Marx’s base-superstructure)

Answer 10

Those who own and/or organize the economic base will control and influence society

Question 11

State/national ideologies

Answer 11

The government or the elite’s stories about who we are and how things are

Question 12

Realpolitik

Answer 12

Political practice based in practical/economic interests rather than on ideological and/or moral ones