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Political Institutions
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are concern with the social structure of power
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politics
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gaining & losing of power
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coercion
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use of threat or force
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authority
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power that is supported by norms & vaules which ligtimate its use
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3 kinds of power
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traditional-right to mk decisions eg. parents, charismatice, rational-legal right to mk decisions
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power
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ability to force people to cooperate even against there wil
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influence
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ability to convience people to cooperate thru means of promises
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state
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social insitution which claims a successful monopoly in the lig. use of coercion & physical force (makes dec. for us)
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2 types of state level policital systems
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authoritatian-leadership not selected, democratic-political sys. that create regular consitution
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democracy is composed of two groups
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1-people in power, 2-people trying to get into power
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structual theory for state level politics
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when things are working well the process works well together, checks and balances
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conflict theroy for state level politics
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power elite theory, that a unified elite group mk all dec.& in favor of themselves
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3 groups that represent conflict theory for power
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military,industry, executive branch of goverment
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econmic intitutions
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social structures or systems concerned w/ the product and distribution of goods & services
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capitialism
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economic system based on competition, used wealth power,property for own gain
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post industrial economy**
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doctors,lawyers,police, teachers, services, birth rate goes down,job & ed. go up, new values, (now)
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preindustiral economy
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primary production, taking raw material, birth & death rate high,manuel labor 1761
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industrail revolution
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smaller families,better health, birth rate high,farming to factory, rural to urban
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4 social forces for change
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1-collective 2-social movement 3-counter movement 4-technology
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collective
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spontanius & emotionally arroused gathering of people, eg. walmart
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social movement
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on going goal directed effort to fundamentally challenge social institutions eg. gay marriage, abortion
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counter movements
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movements that seek to reverse or resist change eg. anit gay marriage, pro-life
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technology
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making of tools
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