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| A Major sphere of social life, or societal system, designed to meet human needs. |
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| The social institution that organized a society's production, distribution, and consumption of good services. |
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| a productive system based on service work and high technology. |
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| the part of the economy that draws raw material from the natural environment |
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| The part of the economy that transforms raw materials into manufactured goods. |
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| The part of the economy involving services rather than goods. |
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| The expanding economic activity with little regard for national borders. |
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| Economic system in which natural resources and the means of producing goods and service are privately owned. |
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| An economic system in which natural resources and the means of producing goods and service are collectively owned. |
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| An economic and political system that combines a mostly market-based economy with extensive social welfare programs. |
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| An economic and political system that in which companies are privately owned but cooperate closely with the government. |
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| a prestigious white-collar occupation that requires extensive formal education. |
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| An organization with a legal existence, including rights and liabilities, apart from those of its members. |
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| to the domination of a market by a single producer. |
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| to the domination of a market by a few producers |
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| to the social institution that distributes power, set society's agenda, and makes decisions. |
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| The ability to achieve desired ends despite the resistance of others. |
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| A formal organization that directs the political life of society. |
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| To power that people perceive as legitimate rather than coercive |
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| the transformation of charismatic authority into some combination of traditional and bureaucratic authority. |
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| A type of political system in which a single family rules from generation to generation. |
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| a type of political system that gives power to the people as a whole. |
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| a political system that denies popular participation in government. (example: Ethiopia government) |
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| a highly centralized political system that extensively regulates people's lives. (Example: North Korea) |
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| to a range of government agencies and programs that provides benefits to the population. |
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| to an analysis of politics that sees power as dispersed among many competing interest groups. |
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| to an analysis of politics that sees power as concentrated among rich. |
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| Marxist Political-Economy model |
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| an analysis that explains politics in terms of the operation of society's economic system. |
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| to the overthrow of one political system in order to establish another. |
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| to act of violence or threat of such violence by an individual or group as a political strategy. |
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| to organized, armed conflict between the peoples of various societies. |
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| Military-Industrial Complex |
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| The close association of the federal government, the military, and the defense industries. |
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