Read through the following questions and answer one of them in your journal. Your answer should be complete, and must be written in standard, grammatically correct English.
1. Distinguish between power, authority, and violence, providing at least two examples of each.
2. Compare and contrast traditional, rational-legal, and charismatic authority, providing a minimum of two examples of each.
3. Define and discuss monarchies, direct democracies, representative democracies, oligarchies, dictatorships, and totalitarianism, providing at least one example of each.
4. Define and discuss special-interest groups, lobbyists, and political action committees, providing at least two examples of each.
5. Compare and contrast the functionalist (defining anarchy, pluralism, and checks and balances) and conflict perspectives (defining power elite and ruling class) of who rules America. Which do you believe is most beneficial? Why?
6. Define economy, subsistence economy, and conspicuous consumption. List and discuss each of the four stages of transforming economic systems, providing at least one example of a society at each stage.
7. List and discuss the three essential conditions of war discussed by Timasheff. List and discuss the seven “fuels” that can instigate a war.
7. There are two principal economic systems in the world today, namely capitalism and socialism. Define and discuss capitalism laissez-faire capitalism and welfare or state capitalism. Define and discuss socialism, market forces, and democratic socialism. Compare capitalism and socialism, discussing the means of production, competition, and profit in each system.
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