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25 Cards in this Set
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Michels
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Iron Law of Oligarchy - all top-down organizations are run by the same type of people
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Pareto
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80-20 rule. This is the natural order and all societal descriptions will revert to it over time.
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Nietcshe
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Will to power - The same kind of people will conquer other people
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Mosca
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Sheep - people are sheep and want to follow leaders
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Weber
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Bureaucracy - people are followers and therefore bureaucracy is necessary and convenient
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Parsons
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Social Homeostasis - there are automatic adjustment mechanisms that allow behavior to adapt. When disaster strikes people will rebound.
The straight line over time |
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Zeno
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Straight line - constant condition over time despite shocks
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Heraclites
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Erratic line - Society is affected by shock
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Pavlov
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Conditioning - Ring bell at meal time
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Ariely
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"Framing" and not rationality will affect decisions
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Levitt
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Rationality - People's behavior is a response to rationality
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Coase
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Coase's Theorem - a firm will exist only if it reduces transaction costs
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Maslow
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Maslow's Heirarchy - pyramid
1. Nirvana (self-actualization) 2. Humanitarianism 3. Love, Respect 4. Security 5. Food, shelter, clothing |
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Plato
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Philosopher's King - there is a strata of society best fit to lead
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Galton
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Eugenics - children won't be as smart as two parents. Purifying genome
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Skinner
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Reinforcement - mouse in the box that hit knob and got shocked
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Meade
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Nurture
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Dawkins
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Selfish gene, sociobiology - our point of earth is to survive
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McFadden
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Bounded - only self interested and rational to a point. Implies that utility is affected by that of others
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Freud
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Subconscious - sex. Behaviors originat in the depths of mind and from childhood
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Boas
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Nurture - Meade's teacher
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La Place
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La Place's Demon - there is a man who knows everything and is able to predict future and read past because of perfect laws of physics. Determinist
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Heisenberg
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Uncertainty principal - can only know speed OR location
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Menger
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Determinism
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Medieval Church
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do God's will
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