Unit 1
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 What is a society? | a group of people who interact in defined territory and share a culture |
| What is a social institution? | big concepts that all societies develop |
| What are the major social institutions? | political systems, economic systems, family, religion, education, and government q |
| Why must societies have political systems? | because they must have order and rules/law enforcement to prosper |
| What must political systems figure out in order for a society to prosper? | they must figure out how to function because if not then it leads to chaos |
| What is an economic system? | how poeple get what they want and need |
| What does the economic system also determine? | how those people of the society get their wants and needs |
| What aer an example of economic systems? | communism, socialism, capitalism |
| What type of economic system does the united states have? | capitalism |
| What is religion? | a belief of philosophy to believein |
| What is education? | a system to pass along information and knowledge |
| Why is Louisiana education so low in comparision to all the other states? | because our economies developed differently than those who were mainly industrialized. |
| What is the government? | the institution through which public policy is made and enforced |
| What is public policy? | the course of action which the government takes in response to some need or concern |
| Public policy can also be described as... | what the government wants to do |
| What is a law? | a set of rules and standards by which a society governs itself |
| What are the main reasons why governments are created? | maintain social order, provide public services, provide for common defense and welfare, and regulate and control the economic system |
| How does the government maintain social order? | by having police enforcement, having a place for criminals |
| What are some of the public services that the government provides? | libraries, public transportation, public schools, postal services, and highways and roads |
| How does the government provide for the common defense and welfare? | military, homeland security, FBI, fema, and border control |
| How does the government regulate and control the economic system?? | taxes, welfare, banks, money in general, and the federal reserve |
| What is government? | institution through which a society makes and enforces public policies |
| What is the government made up of? | authoritative figures who exercise power and control people |
| What are public policies? | things that the government decides sto do |
| What does public policy cover? | taxes, defense, education, crime, healthcare, transportation, environment, civil rights, and work conditions |
| What does the government need to carry out public policy? | power |
| What is power? | the ability to command or prevent action |
| What are the 3 basic government policies? | legislative, executive and judicial |
| What is the legislative? | they make laws |
| What is the executive? | they execute, enforce, and administer the law |
| What is judicial? | they interperate the law, determine law meaning, and settle society disputes |
| What is the constitution? | laws setting principle structure and process of govenment |
| What is a democracy? | the power rests with the majority of the people |
| How did government come about? | because people couldnt survive without regulation of behavior |
| What are politics | a process by which a society decides how power and resources will be distributed |
| What do politics enable? | they enable decisions of who reaps benefits and who pays the cost of public policy |
| What is public opinion? | general concern and interest of the higher portion of the people |
| What is a public made up of?? | individuals who hold the same view on a particular issue |
| What are public affairs? | events and issues that concern the people at large |
| What is mass media? | means of communication that reach large, widely dispersed audiences simultaneously |
| What are peer groups? | made up of people with whom one regularly associates |
| What are examples of peer groups? | friends, classmates, neighbors |
| What is an example of mass media? | internet magazines radio |
| What is an opinion leader? | any person who has a strong infuence on the opinion of others |
| How do historic events effect the people? | they have a major impact on views of a higher number of people and a higher content/discretion of public policy |
| What is a radical? | favors extreme change to create an altered or entirely new social system |
| What is a liberal? | believes that government must take action to change economic, political, and idealogical policies thought to be unfair |
| What is a moderate? | holds beliefs that fall between liberal and conservative views and usually include some of both |
| What is a conservative? | seeks to keep in place the economic, political, and social structures of society |
| What is a reactionary? | favors extreme change to restore society to an earlier, more conservative state |
| What is a political party? | a group of persons who seekk to control government through the winning of elections and the holding of public office |
| What are the 2 main political parties? | democratic and republican |
| What do parties do? | modify and encourage compromise, nominate candidates, inform and activate supporters, bonding agents |
| What is nominating a candidate? | selecting a candidate to present to voters |
| What is informing and activating supporters in terms of political parties? | each party informs the people how they think they should be informed |
| What are bonding agent functions? | ensuring the good performance of candidates and officers |
| What is partisanship? | strong suppor of party and its political stands |
| What is the party in power? | party that controls the executive branch of government |
| What is a minor party? | aone political party without wide voter support |
| What were the first 2 political parties? | democrat and republican |
| What happens with our electorl system? | a singlel member of a district contests where only one candidate is elected to each office on the ballot |
| What is plurality | the largest # of votes cast for office |
| What is the bipartisan way? | 2 parties find common ground |
| What isi a pluralistic ociety? | several different cultures or groups |
| What is a consensus? | a general agreement among various groups on fudamental matters |
| What is a multiparty system? | a system where several major and many lesser parties exist, compete, and win elections |
| What is a coalition? | temporary alliance of several groups |
| What are some of the different minor parties? | libertarian, reform, socialist, prohibition, natural lawo, communist, american indepenent, and green |
| What are idealogical parties? | based on a particular set of beliefs |
| What are single issue parties? | focus on only one public party matter |
| What are econonomic protest parties? | rooted in economic periods of unrest |
| What are splinter parties? | those that have split away from one of the major parties |
| What does a spoiler role mean? | if a minor party doesnt win, it can pull votes from one of the major parties |
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