Sociology Now, Census Update
THERE ARE TWO OLD SAYINGSabout politics: “Everybody wants to change the world.” “You can’t fight city hall.” Which is true? In s ...
Politics: Power and Authority Politicsis the art and science of government. Politics is about about power, the abil- ity to make ...
could vote only for candidates who were handpicked by the factory owners. Their only means of getting more were trickery and the ...
institutions, including religion, government, and the family, where we obey some rules because we have always done so. Children ...
to withstand changing social situations, and traditional authority is unable to handle much change without breaking down. And no ...
Authoritarian Systems In an authoritarian political system,power is vested in a single person or small group. Sometimes that per ...
required by law to belong to one of a few aristocratic families (Norwich, 1989). As a simple guide, if monarchy is like the rule ...
Democracy The great British statesman Winston Churchill once commented that democracy is the worst form of government—except for ...
But even these countries are experiencing strong pressure toward democratiza- tion from both home and abroad. Globalized mass me ...
Corruption. An international agency called Transparency International (www .transparency.org/) ranks nations on a scale of 0 (no ...
Bureaucracy.As nations become larger and more complex, more and more levels between the people and the decision making are forme ...
officials like mayors: Grassroots door knocking and envelope stuffing can never compete with high-tech prime-time TV commercials ...
the losers don’t, or will there be protections of the minorities to ensure they are not trampled politically? (Of course, middle ...
States barred non-Whites from becoming citizens well into the 1930s), educational restrictions (a high school diploma or the equ ...
centralized government; the Republicans, led by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, held a more agrarian small-town ideal and ar ...
Party Affiliation: The Politics of Race, Class, and Gender What makes people affiliate with—that is, join, support, or vote for— ...
occurs primarily among White women: 44 percent voted for Kerry in 2004 as com- pared to 75 percent of women of color. Early soci ...
their interests among state and national legislators and often to influence public opin- ion.Protective groupsrepresent only one ...
Increasingly, interest groups do not try to represent an entire political agenda. Instead, they fight for or against a single is ...
and Trial Lawyers of America—each contributed more than $2 million to selected can- didates and committees (Federal Election Com ...
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