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| most of the population ruled by the king or emperor showed little awareness of, or interest in, those who governed them. |
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| the right of every individual to enjoy a certain minimum standard of economic welfare and security. Entitlements such as sickness benefirts, benefits in case of unemployment, and the guarantee of minimum levels of wages. |
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| Interest Groups, influence of |
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| any organization that attempts to influence elected officials to consider their aims when deciding on legislation |
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| Beaurecratic States: Weber |
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| The large modern states are absolutely dependent upon a bureaucratic basis. Weber rejected the idea tht one-party systems can be democratic in any meaningful way. Mass participation is better. |
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| Charles Tilly: collective action |
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| **people acting together in pursuit of interests they share. The organization of the group or groups involved, Mobilization in which a group aquires sufficient resources to make collective actions possible,The common interests of those engages, and Opportunity .. chance events may occur. |
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| New social movements vs. Old social movements |
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| New: concerned with the quality of private life, political, and economic issues, calling for large-scale change in the way people think and act. Involves the creation of collective identities based around entire lifestyles. movements emerged around ecology, peace, gender, and sexual identity, gay and lesbian rights, women's rights, alternative medicine, and opposition to globalization. Old: based on single issue objectives that typically |
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| Femimist movements, Globalization, Technology, Nationalist |
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| Military industrial Complex |
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| Eisenhower stated, "The conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience... we must guard against the aquisition of unwarranted influence." Pretty much, the military will take over the country if we let it. |
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| Taylor: scientific management: FORD |
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| the detailed study of industrial processes to break them down into simple operations that could be precisely timed and organized. Taylorism: as scientific management came to be called, was not merely an academic study. It was a system of production designed to maximize industrial output, and it had a wide spread effect not only on the organization of industrial production and terminology but on workplace politics as well. Fordism: the name given to designate the system of mass production tied to the cultivation of mass markets. |
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| Family capitalism: large firms were run by indicidual entrepreneurs or by members of the same family and then passed on to their descendants. Managerial capitalism: As managers came to have more and more influence through the growth of very large firms, the entrepreneurial families were displaced. Welfare capitalism: practice that sought to make the corporation rather than the state or trade unions, the primary shelter from the uncertainties of the market in modern industrial life. Institutional capitalism: the emergence of a consolidated network of business leadership, concerned not only with decision making within single firms but also with the development of corporate power beyond them. |
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| Global workplace: Barnet & Cavanagh |
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| the increasing complex global division of lavor that afffects all of us. consists of offices, factories, restaurants, and million sof other places where goods are produced and consumed or information is exchanged. |
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| People felt like they had a sense of control over their work that had been lacking with other forms of technology. Some thought that it was deskilling the industrial labor force. Diminished their autonomy. |
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| Money; Activity level; Variety; Temporal structure; Social contacts; Personal identity. |
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| Deindustrialization in US |
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| a systematic decline in the industrial base., or as the process whereby the proportion of jobs in the manufacturing sector of the economy decreases over time. |
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| Labor-saving machines, the spread of information technology, and computerization in industry. The rises in the manufacturing industry in other parts of the world, [asia] make the US have many job cutbacks because of their inability to compete w/ the more efficient Asian producers, whose labor costs are lower. the "knowledge" economy now, instead of the skilled economy. |
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| being unable to find a job when one wants it. can lead to poverty... |
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| Family of orientation vs. procreation |
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| Orientaion: the family into which a person is born. Procreation: the family into which one enters as an adult and within which a new generation of children is brought up. |
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| Different kinds of marriages |
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| Monogamy- illegal for a man or woman to be married to more than one person at a time. polygamy- a marriage that allows a husband or wife to have more than one spouse. polygyny- a man may be married to more than one woman at the same time. polyandry, where a woman may have 2 or more husbands simultaneously. |
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| cohabitation can cause it, fear of divorce, careers. |
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| Waller-Stein: regarding children and divorce |
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| children need to know it's not their fault and it's not their respondsibility. |
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| It's a trial of marriage. This raises the possibility of divorce. |
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| Problems in cities often spill over into the schools. |
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| Herrnstein and Murray: IQ's |
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| They say blacks have lower IQ's and Asian Americans are equal or better than whites. |
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| Television does not just "represent" the world to us, it increasingly defines what the world in which we live actually is. |
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| Durkheim's theory of religion |
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| a good exapmle of the functionalist tradition of thought. To analyze the function of a social behavior or social institution like religion is to study the contributionit makes to the continuation of a group, community, or society. |
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| religions can be fruitfully understood as organizations in competition with each other for followers. There is something for just about everyone. |
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| refer collectively to the broad range of religious and spiritual groups, cultes, and sects that have emerged in the Western countries. |
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| a set of religious beliefs through which a society interprets its own history in light of some conception of ultimate reality. |
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