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38 Cards in this Set
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Traditional authority |
Authority based on custom |
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Rational - legal Authority |
Authority based on written rules |
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Charismatic authority |
Authority based on personal traits |
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"Rountization of charisma" |
Transition of authority from a charismatic leader to other authorities |
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Monarchy |
Type of government with hereditary rule |
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Democracy |
Type of government where power is given to a ruler by citizens |
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Dictatorship |
Type of government where power is seized by an individual |
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Oligarchy |
A small group of people have control of a country, organization, or institution |
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Dimensions of power (Steven Luke) |
Decision making (ones that will affect others) Agenda Management (set agendas) Manipulation of wishes (choose what people think they want) |
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Characteristics of the US political system |
Public education, strong military, freedom of religion, speech, assembly, and capitalism & private ownership of property |
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Nicholas Timasheff's three essential conditions of war |
1. Antagonist situation in which two or more states confront incompatible objectives 2. Cultural tradition of war 3. Fuel that heats a situation, where political leaders cross the line from thinking about war to waging it |
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Seven motivations that wage war |
Revenge, power, prestige, unity, position, ethnicity, and beliefs |
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Global superclass |
Class that consists of leaders of world's top multinational companies |
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Convergence theory |
Hybrid or mixes economy, with socialist economies adopting capitalist principles and practices, and capitalist economies adopting more balanced emphasis on social and environmental responsibilities |
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Family |
Consists of people who consider themselves related by blood, marriage, commitment, or adoption |
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Household |
People who occupy the same housing unit |
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Nuclear family |
Family that includes husband, wife, and children |
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Extended family |
Nuclear unit and grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins |
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Family of orientation |
Family in which an individual grows up |
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Family of procreation |
Family that is formed when a couple has a child or adopts one |
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Endogamy: |
Must marry within a group |
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Exogamy |
Must marry outside a group |
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Fictive kin |
Social ties not defined by biology or marriage |
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Propinquity |
Physical or psychological proximity between peiple, leading to interpersonal attraction |
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Homogamy |
Tendency of people with similar characteristics to marry each other |
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Functionalist perspective of how family provides needs |
Economic production, socialization of children, care of the sick and elderly, recreation, sexual control, and reproduction |
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Conflict perspective of marriage |
Conflict is part of relationships, create a power balance between spouses |
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Happy couple characteristics |
Spouse is best friend, like them as a person, think as long-term commitment, marriage is sacred, share common goals, spouse gets more interesting over time, wants a successful relationship, and laugh together |
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Happy families |
Spend time together, express appreciation, promote one another's welfare, spend time talking and listening, religious, and deal with conflict positively |
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Harold Lasswell's definition of politics |
Who gets what, when, and how |
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Functionalist perspective |
Pluralism: a diffusion of power among many special-interest groups, prevents any one group from gaining control of the government and using it to oppress people/Steven Lukes |
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Conflict Perspective |
The ruling class (power elite) determines the economic and political conditions under which the country operates/C. Wright Mills |
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Capitalism |
1. Private ownership of the means of production 2. Market competition 3. The pursuit of profit |
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Socialism |
1. Public ownership of the means of production 2. Central planning 3. Distribution of goods without a profit motive |
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Contervailing power |
Two main power sources that oppose each other |
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Composition portrait |
African American, latino, Asian American, native American, one parent family, couples without children, blended family, families with LGBT parents |
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Developmental stages of families |
Couple uniting, childbirth, child rearing, empty nest, widowhood |
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Historical trends in families |
Cohabitation, family size, and age at first marriage |
