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- routinization of charisma
- the transfer authority from a charismatic figure to either a traditional or a rational-legal form of authority
- models of power
- functionalist perspective, conflict perspective, ruling class
- functionalist perspective
- pluralism the diffusion of power among many interest groups that prevents any single group from gaining control of that group(check and balances)
- the conflict perspective
- power elite- C. Wright Mills term for the top people inthe U.S. corporations, military, and politics who make the nation's major decisions; consists of the top people
- ruling class
- donhoff's terminology refers to the power the Power eltie control top corporations
- voting paterns and voting aleination
- social integration, voter alienation & apathy, ender and racial ethnic gap in voting
- social integration
- the degree to which people feel apart of social groups
- voter aleination & apathy
- isolated from politics; indifference and inaction on the part of the individuals or groups with respect to the political process "what difference will my vote make"
- gender and racial ethnic gap in voting
- "politcal gap" women and African americans tend to vote democratic while men tend to vote republican
- war and dehumanization
- war exacts many cost in addition to killing people and destroying property, one is its effects on morality, exposure to brutality and killing causes dehumanization
- dehumanization
- proces of reducing people to objects that do not deserved to be treated as humans
- family of orientation
- the family in which a person grows up
- family of procreation
- the family that is formed when a couple's first child is born
- trends in the family
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indicators of change in marriage life and family in the US
1.postponing marriage and childbirth 2. cohabilitation-increased 3. unmarried mothers-increased 4. grandparents and parents- becoming more common for grandparents to raise children 5. the sandwich generation and elder care - the sandwich generation and elder care
- people stuck btw two generations responsible for both their children and aging parents
- personal reasons for divorce
- dissimlarity, poor communication, lack of commitment, drastic change in priorites
- reasons for increased rate in divorce
- no fault divorce, divorce culture, geographic mobility
- demography
- the sutdy of the size, composition, growth, and distribution of human populations
- DOUBLING TIME
- time it takes for a population to double
- total fertility rate
- number of children thought to have been born by an age group
- population pyramid
- a graphic representation of a population, didvided into age and sex
- metropolis
- a central city surrounded by smaller cities and their suburbs
- megalopolis
- an urban area consisting of at least two metropolises and their many suburbs
- megacity
- a city of 10 million or more residents
- Malthus
- late 1700 English economist, wrote ESSAY ON THE PRINCIPLE OF POPULATION
- Mathus Theorem
- an observation by Thomas Malthus that although the food supply increases arithmetically (1 to 2 to 3), population grows geometrically (2 to 4 to 8)
- popular soverienty
- the concept that political and legislative power resides with the citizens