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| POWER (Term coined by Max Weber) |
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| The ability to exercise one's will over others even if they resist. |
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| The actual or threatened use of coercion to impose one's will on others |
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| The exercise of power through a process of persuasion |
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| Institutionalized power that is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised |
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| Legitmate power that is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised. |
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| Authority based on formally agreed upon and accepted rules, principles, and procedures of conduct that are established in order to accomplish goals in the most efficient manner possible. |
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| Power that is made legitimate by a leader's exceptional personal or emotional appeal to his or her followers. |
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| The social institution through which goods and services are produced, distributed, and consumed. |
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| An economic system based on private property, in which profit-seeking individuals, companies, and corporations compete in the market place. |
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| The principle that people should be able to compete freely, without goverment intervention, in the capitalist marketplace. |
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| Control of a market by a single firm |
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| An economic system under which the means of production and distribution are collevtively owned. |
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| An economic system that combines elements of both capitalism and soialism. |
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| Transfers of money, goods, or services that are not reported to the goverment. |
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| The systematic, widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity, such as factories and plants. |
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| Reductions in a company's workforce as part of deindustralization. |
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| The transfer of work to foregin contractors. |
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| In Harold Lasswell's words, "Who gets what, when, and how" |
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| The social institution that is founded on a recognized set of procedures for implimenting and achieving society's goals. |
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| A form of goverment headed by a single member of royal family: A king, a queen, or some other hereditary ruler. |
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| A form of goverment in which a few indivdiuals rule. |
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| A goverment in which one person has nearly total power over all aspects of society's social and politcal life. |
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| In a literal sense, "goverment by the people" |
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| A form of goverment in which certain individuals are selected to speak for the people. |
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| A view of society as being ruled by a small group of indivduals who share a common set of politcal and economic interests. |
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| A small group of millitary, industrial, and goverment leaders who control the fate of the United States. |
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| A view of society in which many competing groups within the community have access to the goverment, so that no single group is dominant. |
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| Conflict between organizations that possess trained combat forces equipped with deadly weapons. |
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| The use or threat of violence against random or symbolic targets in the pursuit of political arms. |
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| The absense of war or a proactive effort to develop cooperative relations among nations |
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| A structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in a society |
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| A social position that a person attains largely through his or her own efforts |
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| A system of enforced servitude in which some people are owned by others as property |
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| A hereditary rank, usually religously dictated, that tends to be fixed and immobile. |
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| A system of stratification under which peasents were required to work land leased to them by nobles in exchange for military protection and other services; also known as feudalism. |
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| A social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence social mobility. |
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| Movement of individuals or groups from one position in a society's stratification system to another. |
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| A social system in which the position of each individual is influenced by his or her achieved status |
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| A social system in which there is little or no possibilty of individual social mobility |
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| The movement of an indivudal from one social position to another of the same rank |
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| The movement of an indivdual from one social position to another of a different rank |
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| Intergrenerational Mobility |
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| Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents |
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| Karl Max's term for the capitalist class, compromising the owners of the means of production |
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| Karl Max's term for the working class in a capitalist society who lack ownership of the means of production |
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| In Karl Max's view, a subjective awarness held by members of a class regarding their common vested interests and need for collective political action to bring about social change. |
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| A term used by Karl Max to describe an attitude held by members of a class that does not reflect their objective position |
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| A group of people who have a similiar level of economic recourses |
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