Iron law of oligarchy Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

What is the first bureaucracy known to mankind? correct answer: organized religion What is the second bureaucracy know to man? correct answer: government What are the two main organizations that a person belonged to during Huntering/Gathering era? correct answer: family clan, religious group What is a bureaucracy? correct answer: a complex formal organization What does science and industry demand in a bureaucracy? correct answer: efficiency, predictabilty and rationality What...

Democracy - A political system in which decision-making power is widely shared among members of the society Liberty - The idea that individual citizens should have a high degree of self-determination Oligarchy - Government by the few Equality - The idea that all persons have an equal claim to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness Autocracy - Government by one Individualism - The idea that the dignity and integrity of the individual is of supreme importance Iron Triangle - Term give...

Politics correct answersthe process by which the actions of government are determined (can be through deals) Public Policy correct answerswhat the government decides to do or not to do based on laws, rules/regulations, expenditures. Government correct answersthe legitimate use of force within specified geographical boundaries to control human behavior State correct answerslegal, political concept that denotes territory with an effective govt and is sovereign Power correct answersthe ...

sociological imagination correct answer: the ability to see how our experiences connect with structural arrangements of our society and the times in which we live Microsociology correct answer: the detailed study of what people say, do, and think moment by moment as they go about their daily lives. Macrosociology correct answer: focuses upon large-scale and long-term social processes of organizations, institutions, and broad social patterns Auguste Comte correct answer: The Founder ...

CSET Subtest 1 Latest Version Already Passed Phoneme smallest part of spoken language that makes difference in the meaning of words. if has two phoneme /i/ /f/ chech /ch/ /e/ /k/ Grapheme smallest part of written language that represent a phoneme in the spelling of a word Phonemic awareness ability to hear, identify, and manipulate the individual sounds phoneme in words. The understanding that that sounds work together to make words. Helps in reading Decoding analysis of spoken or written sym...

Plato's Republic Questions and Answers Already Passed Cephalus' definition of justice keeping of promises and repaying of debts Socrates objection to Cephalus' justice return a weapon to a crazy person Polemarchus' definition of justice benefitting friends and harming enemies; returning good for good, bad for bad. Socrates' objections to Polemarchus' justice 1. definition makes justice a useless craft 2. we can be wrong about who are our friends and enemies 3. justice can't require har...

1. Akhenaten's experiment with Egyptian religion failed because A) its elaborate ritual was too confusing. B) the hated and corrupt priesthood endorsed it. C) it was imposed from above and failed to find a place among the people. D) it did not gain the support of the pharaoh. 2. Which of the following characterizes the idea of "Western" at the beginning of the twenty-first century? A) Christian, democratic, and advocating civil liberties B) Democratic, individualist, and militaristic ...

CSET subtest 1 (world history) Questions and Answers 2023 Mesopotamia tigris and euphrates river cuneiform (writing) organized gov. written law code (hammurabi's code) systemized religion (zoroastrianism) astronomy Egypt Nile river, mediterranean and Red Sea religion of gods (pharaoh) writing (hieroglyphics) engineering (pyramids) mathematics India Indus and Ganges rivers, Arabian Sea urban culture planned cities (sanitation system) Metallurgy (gold, copper, bronze...

Sociology 201 True-False Final Exam Questions and answers well illustrated. The concept of life chances was coined by Durkheim - correct answers.False There is only one type of social mobility - correct answers.False Sociology is the scientific study of human social life, groups, and societies, focusing on the modern world - correct answers.True The term sociological imagination, coined by C. Wright Mills in 1959, refers to our ability to break ourselves free from...

achieved status - ANSWER-A status that individuals secure on the basis of choice and competition. altruistic suicide - ANSWER-type of suicide that occurs where ties to the group or community are considered more important than individual identity affiliation motivated - ANSWER-when one's actions are geared to helping them join or connect with a particular social status agricultural societies - ANSWER-Societies that cultivate large amounts of crops with the plow and other relatively adva...