Vocabulary
- Bureaucracy: More and more people who are apart of a government. These people do all different jobs. A bureaucrat is one of these people. When people use this tear politically it is used in a negative way. Conservatives, who want a smaller government, hate the idea of a bureaucracy.
- Federalism: A federal system is when there is one large government overcasting many smaller governments inside it. The United States is a federalist government because there is our main government overcasting all the state governments.
- Consensus: A general agreement; A form of decision making where everybody accepts the final solution. You keep negotiating until everyone agrees on a solution (sometimes it is a compromise) - its not voting its coming to an agreement sometimes over days or weeks. ex. quakers, quaker schools
- Sovereignty: Self governing.
-Normative Issues: Issues based upon values and beliefs. There are different norms in different societies, norms are changing; religious norms etc.
- Nationalism: Acting in accordance with a belief in ones nation.
-Authoritarianism: Ruling out of fear.
-Legitimacy: When you have a government that the people support, it is "legit".
- Plutocracy: Ruled by the wealthy.
-Oligarchy: A ruling family, small group of people (generally who have control over the majority of a nation).
-Planks and Platforms: platform; sum of all of the views of a political party or an individual. The plank is the actually individual views (or individual policy views)
-Democratization: The process of becoming something that is democratic.
-Fundamentalism: People who thrive on their anger. Regarding religious beliefs, taking ones tasks literally. Following ones religion word for word "this is how you are suppose to interpret the teachings, you must follow it". On the political spectrum fundamentalists fall either far right or far left.
-Aristocracy: The upper class, top 1%, lifestyle can be born into it, some may feel as though they are an aristocrat but may not be wealthy enough.
-Post-Industrial: After the coming of the industrial revolution, after industrialization (social event in terms of technology) comes mechanization.
-Intolerance: Not accepting (a group, individual, based upon religion or race etc.) ex. presidential candidates/parties. Not based on realities so much as preceptions -- Norms are what societies value and how societies act. One social norm in the us is that the harder you work the better you are as a person When we simply accept norms as the truth we are abdicating some amount of power/ability to think. Norms regarding european history - roman catholic church was intolerant of anyone who was different. Martin Luther challenged the way of warship and religion. TIED TO NORMS and NARRATIVE (story or acceptance story)
-Despot: Absolute ruler (dictator) --- benevolent despot is a charitable/well wishing ruler
-Contract/Social Contract: An agreement between two parties, something you agree to abide by, social contracts are the agreements you make (almost implied) if you are going to live in a society/community ex. politeness. People who challenge the norms are seen as extremists or protestors
-Reform: Keeping what you have but making it better, to fix, to alter, to change for the good or the better (some may see as good but usually/always another who does not see it as a good thing)
-Secularism: Non religious or not connected to a religion (independent of religion) ex. KUA is a secular school because we are not connected to a particular school.
-Humanist:
-Heretic:
-Accrue:
-Balkanization: When something is big and the breaks up into smaller pieces. The process of something being unified into smaller pieces. (unification is almost the opposite of balkanization)
-Contiguous: Things that touch (ex. countries in Europe or states in the US)
-AGE OF REASON: This was a movement. Rejecting some of the teachings of the church and then trying to figure things out for themselves. A time during which people were questioning what they have been told by church doctrine and they were doing it through what they called logic. Religion isn't necessarily connected with logic, it is connected with faith but faith is not always connected to logic. People would use logic to investigate somethings/make decisions because of moral boundaries (Moral imperative). People make decisions that are logical because of outside forces because of things such as the church or family. The age of reason was pushing back against what had been accepted for a long time to be known as the truth. It was a movement (social movement). Intellectual, social, political, artistic, economic movements.
during the middle ages when people were searching for security, people started to think they did not have to rely on the church because they were starting to feel safe and secure. This was because of industrial revolutions, most stuff to go around, commercial revolution, expansion around the world, contact with others around the world, political leaders started to by into the idea (enlightened despots therefore they were not beholden as much to the church).
-Movements: Intellectual, social, political, artistic, cultural, economic movements. Movements are not always intentional. Movements can be non violent or violent.
- Federalism: A federal system is when there is one large government overcasting many smaller governments inside it. The United States is a federalist government because there is our main government overcasting all the state governments.
- Consensus: A general agreement; A form of decision making where everybody accepts the final solution. You keep negotiating until everyone agrees on a solution (sometimes it is a compromise) - its not voting its coming to an agreement sometimes over days or weeks. ex. quakers, quaker schools
- Sovereignty: Self governing.
-Normative Issues: Issues based upon values and beliefs. There are different norms in different societies, norms are changing; religious norms etc.
- Nationalism: Acting in accordance with a belief in ones nation.
-Authoritarianism: Ruling out of fear.
-Legitimacy: When you have a government that the people support, it is "legit".
- Plutocracy: Ruled by the wealthy.
-Oligarchy: A ruling family, small group of people (generally who have control over the majority of a nation).
-Planks and Platforms: platform; sum of all of the views of a political party or an individual. The plank is the actually individual views (or individual policy views)
-Democratization: The process of becoming something that is democratic.
-Fundamentalism: People who thrive on their anger. Regarding religious beliefs, taking ones tasks literally. Following ones religion word for word "this is how you are suppose to interpret the teachings, you must follow it". On the political spectrum fundamentalists fall either far right or far left.
-Aristocracy: The upper class, top 1%, lifestyle can be born into it, some may feel as though they are an aristocrat but may not be wealthy enough.
-Post-Industrial: After the coming of the industrial revolution, after industrialization (social event in terms of technology) comes mechanization.
-Intolerance: Not accepting (a group, individual, based upon religion or race etc.) ex. presidential candidates/parties. Not based on realities so much as preceptions -- Norms are what societies value and how societies act. One social norm in the us is that the harder you work the better you are as a person When we simply accept norms as the truth we are abdicating some amount of power/ability to think. Norms regarding european history - roman catholic church was intolerant of anyone who was different. Martin Luther challenged the way of warship and religion. TIED TO NORMS and NARRATIVE (story or acceptance story)
-Despot: Absolute ruler (dictator) --- benevolent despot is a charitable/well wishing ruler
-Contract/Social Contract: An agreement between two parties, something you agree to abide by, social contracts are the agreements you make (almost implied) if you are going to live in a society/community ex. politeness. People who challenge the norms are seen as extremists or protestors
-Reform: Keeping what you have but making it better, to fix, to alter, to change for the good or the better (some may see as good but usually/always another who does not see it as a good thing)
-Secularism: Non religious or not connected to a religion (independent of religion) ex. KUA is a secular school because we are not connected to a particular school.
-Humanist:
-Heretic:
-Accrue:
-Balkanization: When something is big and the breaks up into smaller pieces. The process of something being unified into smaller pieces. (unification is almost the opposite of balkanization)
-Contiguous: Things that touch (ex. countries in Europe or states in the US)
-AGE OF REASON: This was a movement. Rejecting some of the teachings of the church and then trying to figure things out for themselves. A time during which people were questioning what they have been told by church doctrine and they were doing it through what they called logic. Religion isn't necessarily connected with logic, it is connected with faith but faith is not always connected to logic. People would use logic to investigate somethings/make decisions because of moral boundaries (Moral imperative). People make decisions that are logical because of outside forces because of things such as the church or family. The age of reason was pushing back against what had been accepted for a long time to be known as the truth. It was a movement (social movement). Intellectual, social, political, artistic, economic movements.
during the middle ages when people were searching for security, people started to think they did not have to rely on the church because they were starting to feel safe and secure. This was because of industrial revolutions, most stuff to go around, commercial revolution, expansion around the world, contact with others around the world, political leaders started to by into the idea (enlightened despots therefore they were not beholden as much to the church).
-Movements: Intellectual, social, political, artistic, cultural, economic movements. Movements are not always intentional. Movements can be non violent or violent.