13.1- politics as the struggle for influence
Important focus of sociology on the relationship of two things
Power and resistance
Form of government in which there are no laws restricting the power of the monarch over the people living in their territory
What is an absolute monarchy?
Study of how the economy shapes politics and how politics influence the economy
What is the political economy?
War at end of WW2 because of tensions between socialism and capitalism
What was the Cold War?
Give an example of a social movement
Can be: democratic revolutions, abolitionist movement, labor movement, feminist movement, etc
Form of power where dominant groups make their worldview seem like "common sense" to the rest of the world
What is hegemony?
What decisions in a popular sovereignty are based on
What is deliberation?
Book that argued the power in American society had become more centralized and now it is dominated by 3 large and powerful institutions.
What is The Power Elite?
All activities and organizations that are involved in the production/distribution/consumption of goods and services
What is an economy?
Collective action problem in which people in large groups will not act in ways to help the common good unless it benefits their own personal interests
What is the free-rider problem?
System of punishments/rewards to get people to act in a particular way
What is coercive power?
Type of democracy in which there is a formal separation between the head of the government and the legislative, the president is elected by a democratic vote of the people.
What is a presidential democracy?
3 large and powerful institutions that dominate American society, according to C. Wright Mills
1. the military 2. corporate sector 3. government sector
Economic system where people use and live on land, providing services to landowners.
What is feudalism?
Movements bring what two types of social success
1. social solidarity 2. social capital
The ability to convince others that a particular choice/action is the appropriate one
What is persuasive power?
What interest groups are conducted by
What is a "think tank?"
Global stratification system in which powerful nations use their military strength to take political control over other territories and exploit them economically
What is colonialism?
Time after the Industrial Revolution, where manufacturing became less important as a source of wealth
What is post-industrialization?
3 rights claims of social movements
1. identity 2. standing 3. program
3 types of legitimate authority
1. traditional 2. rational-legal 3. charismatic
Organization that brings people together on the basis of a common issue and attempts to influence political decisions.
Interest groups
Example of what is used/ done in territories when they are colonized
Time when corporations search for cheap labor, workers lose their power, and the government loses control over economic policy
What is globalization?
Goal of Saul Alinsky's, an American community organizer, protest activities
What is maneuver and bait the establishment?