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| The mass production of agricultural goods through mechanization and rationalization. |
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| A large informal grouping of people who are organized to bring about or to block a change in the sociocultural system. |
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| Military-industrial Complex |
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| An alliance among a nation’s military establishment and defense industries that interchange personnel and share a common interest in furthering defense spending and weapons production. |
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| A policy that emphasizes military preparedness, threats, and action in addressing problems of state. A glorification of military ideals and capabilities. |
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| A government system that provides a range of human services for its citizens. |
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| A competition between nations in which each side attempts to achieve or maintain military superiority. |
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| A set of political and economic ideas in which the means of production and distribution are controlled by an authoritarian state with the expressed goal of creating an egalitarian social order. |
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| The use of violence or the threat of violence to achieve political, social, or economic ends. |
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| A form of democracy that is based on the existence of two or more political parties and in which voters democratically elect politicians to represent their interests. |
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| The establishment of a colonial empire in which domination is political and/or economic. |
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| The development of extensive worldwide patterns of economic, social, or political relationships between nations. |
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| Lenski’s term for the amount of goods and service produced in a sociocultural system over and above what is needed to keep productive classes alive and industrious. |
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| A country that has a marginal role in the world economy and is dependent on core countries in its trading relationships. |
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| A country that occupies a central position on the world stage, such as the advanced industrial societies of North, Western Europe, and Japan. |
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| A form of government that recognizes the right of citizens to participate in political decision making or to elect representatives to government bodies. |
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