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| Written documents to orient behavior |
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Formal Rules
Standard Practices
Compliance Procedures
Common Values |
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| Freedom, justice, liberty, equality, limited government, rule of law, individualism, collective responsibility |
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-Standard operating practices (ex. Elections)
-Compliance procedures |
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-Society organizes in response to risk
-Modern society, industrial civilization
-Society that lives in the future rather than the past |
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-Postmodern philosophy
-inability to distinguish reality from fantasy |
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| Groups are so strong that government is weakened. Extreme, exaggerated form of pluralism. |
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All interests are and should be free to compete for influence in the government.
- compromise and moderation |
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| Interest Group Liberalism |
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| pluralistic competition resulting from broad expansion of public programs in US |
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-societal psychological dysfunction
-society falls apart |
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1- political parties
2- interest groups
3- mass media |
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| Knowledge & Public Opinion |
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Government =
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1- elite
2- mechanism
3- people |
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human beings and animals merged shapes, humans could become animals, vice versa, transport ourselves to other worlds.
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| 5 ways of looking at American Culture: |
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1 Karl Marx
2 E.B. Taylor
3 Gabriel Almond & Sydney Verba
4 Paul Robeson
5 Edward Abbey
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Political culture
Economic culture
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-Culture = superstructure of a society
-On top of every structure is a superstructure
-Society begins on foundations
-Set of ideas of how the world works
-Symbols to communicate
-Basic beliefs, ideas, symbols added by people
-Ideas and beliefs that people in a society create can be appropriated and manipulated for control |
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| Karl Marx's view on Culture: |
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-Tool of liberation or repression
-Repression if a small number of people (elite) is in control
-Culture = power
-Clash of groups/ideas produces a synthesis
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| carries a portion of thesis and antithesis and something "new" |
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-societal evolution
-dialogue between two or more people who hold different ideas and wish to persuade each other
** Opposing forces
-Changes lead to turning points where one force overcomes the other
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-Cultural anthropology
-Culture = complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art morals, law, customs
-culture evolves through common beliefs
-culture is a set of evolving tools that is used to communicate |
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Civilization- vital force in human history
-mass of institutions which accumulate and tend to drag down advance of life
-Saw culture as accumulated baggage, clutters life
-holds back evolution |
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-Words and language
-Culture= linguistic expression
-whoever controls meaning of words, controlled language
-society evolves as language evolves
-every society has a narrative told by diff groups
-dominant narrative controlled the story, language, culture |
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