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Political Science Exam 1
Political Science Exam 1
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Political Studies
Undergraduate 4
09/24/2008

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Term
Ideologies
Definition
Sets of ideas that shape people's thinking and actions, and perform four functions: explanatory, evaluative, orientative, programmatic
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Ideologies: Explanation
Definition
Ideology offers an explanation of why social, political, and economic conditions are as they are.
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Ideologies: Evaluation
Definition
The 2nd function of ideology supplies standards for evaluating social conditions. There is a difference between explaining why certain things are happening, and determining if these things are good or bad.
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Ideologies: Orientation
Definition
Supplies holder with an orientation and a sense of identity of who you are, the group you belong to, and how you are related to the rest of the world.
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Democracy
Definition
Class rule; government by and for the benefit of the working people
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Ideologies: Political Program
Definition
Tells followers what to do and how to do it. Performs a programmatic or prescriptive function by setting out a general program of social and political action
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Aristocracy
Definition
Rule by the "best" (those most qualified to govern)
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Corporate Elites
Definition
Male, proffesionals who climbed ladder, trained at Ivy league schools.
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Who owns corporations?
Definition
Stockholders, institutional investors, occasionally someone associated with family who started it, family still plays active role in governing.
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Who runs corporations?
Definition
Corporate elites
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