
Intro to Sociology: Chapter 13
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- Q1A government's legitimate use of power.Authority30s
- Q2Members of a political community, having both rights and duties associated with that membership.Citizens30s
- Q3Legal rights held by all citizens in a given national community.Civil rights30s
- Q4The realm of activity that lies between the state and the market, including the family, schools, community associations, and noneconomic institutions. Civil society, or civic culture, is essential to vibrant democratic societies.Civil society30s
- Q5Action undertaken in a relatively spontaneous way by a large number of people assembled together.Collective action30s
- Q6Kings or queens who are largely figureheads. Real power rests in the hands of other political leaders.Constitutional monarchs30s
- Q7A political system that allows the citizens to participate in political decision making or to elect representatives to government bodies.Democracy30s
- Q8A theory of the limits of democracy, which holds that in large-scale societies democratic participation is necessarily limited to the regular election of political leaders.Democratic elitism30s
- Q9A form of participatory democracy that allows citizens to vote directly on laws and policies.Direct democracy30s
- Q10The arena within which social movements interact with established organizations, the ideas and outlook of the members of both often becoming modified as a result.Field of action30s
- Q11The use of an understanding of history as a basis for trying to change history-that is, producing informed processes of social change.Historicity30s
- Q12A group organized to pursue specific interests in the political arena, operating primarily by lobbying the members of legislative bodies.Interest group30s
- Q13The failure of a political order to generate a sufficient level of commitment and involvement on the part of its citizens to be able to govern properly.Legitimation crisis30s
- Q14Systems of democracy based on parliamentary institutions, coupled to the free-market system in the area of economic production.Liberal democracies30s
- Q15The beliefs that communities that share a cultural identity should have political autonomy, even within smaller units of a nation-states.Local nationalisms30s