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1
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What is politics all about?

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Power and its contestation

2
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What is Max Weber’s definition of power?

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Capacity to realize one’s will

3
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What is political sociology?

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Inequalities persist because people and groups who hold and exercise power are not ready to give it up or share it

4
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What is public sociology?

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Takes insights of the discipline and applies them to everyday life, social policy and social engagement

5
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What is the State?

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Social institution in which power is concentrated in Western society?

6
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What is the notion of the State enabling power to be exercised by a staff adhering to practices and procedures of organization?

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State as a Bureaucracy

7
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What are material resources of the State?

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Money & financial
Property
Technology
Natural resources
Means of communication
Transportation
Organization
8
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Who believed that there is a limited amount of power in society, which is held by one person or group at a time?

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Karl Marx

9
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What is the Materialist view of politics?

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More material resources a person, group or institution has, the greater their capacity to realize their will and exercise power

10
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What is the idea of a corporate citizen?

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A corporation that has so much power or resources that they have basically become a human being, an entity

11
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Which sociologist is anti-capitalist?

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Karl Marx

12
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Which sociologist believed power is contingent on class and relationship to means of production?

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Karl Marx

13
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Which sociologist argued that power is not limited to ownership of capital, but includes control over assets such as social status, institutions and professional skills?

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Max Weber

14
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Which sociologist said that material assets combine with other resources to affect how power is exercised in society?

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C. Wright Mills

15
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Which sociologist argued that power is based on hierarchal institution of class, education, political standing and ethnicity in Canadian society?

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John Porter

16
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Which sociologist argued that power is not only material but stems from non-material sources such as status or social prestige?

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Max Weber

17
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Which sociologist argued that social and cultural ideals can support status quo or develop into counter-hegemonic positions that challenge order?

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Antoni Gramsci

18
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What is the notion of dominance or leadership?

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Hegemony

19
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Who introduced the idea of Cultural Industry?

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Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno

20
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What is the idea of Cultural Industry?

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The role Cultural Production played in the reinforcement of unequal relations of power under capitalism

21
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Who introduced cultural and social capitals?

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Bourdieu

22
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What is anything that reflects and facilitates cultural exchange between people?

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Cultural capital

23
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What is a resource that fosters social relationships and the privileges and obligations one can draw from them?

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Social capital

24
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Which capital is based on group membership? Cultural or social

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Social

25
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For Bourdieu, which culture is the source of power, and exclusive?

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The elite culture

26
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How do cultural and social capital overlap with economic capital?

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They can be exchanged and influence social mobility

27
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Who argued that cultural values play a key role in higher rates of union membership in Canada compared to the US?

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Lipset

28
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What are patterns of behavior that order people’s lives in relatively predictable ways?

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Institutions

29
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What are institutions characterized by?

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Inertia (stable and resistant to change) & path dependence (encourage people down certain “paths” of action)

30
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Why do institutions both help and hinder people who challenge power?

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Help by providing stable, predictable means for exercising power and hinder by channeling or placing limits for action

31
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What do institutionalists consider in politics?

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Influence of institutions on power and politics

32
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What did Theda Skocpol argue about politics?

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Whichever powerful groups exploited conditions that fostered revolution also depended on the relationship created by state institutions in crisis

33
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Which sociologist argued that democratic state institutions marked by ethnic power imbalances can lead to genocide?

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Mann

34
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Which sociologist said that “institutional legacies” shape social phenomena?

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Béland

35
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Who argued that Citizenship Regimes refer to indigenous people who can turn to transnational institutions to fight for rights?

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Jenson & Papillon

36
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What is a social process in which traditional constraints posed by geography, economic activity, culture and social configurations have receded and been replaced by processes that extend beyond state boundaries?

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Globalization

37
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How does globalization affect material resources?

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Economic globalization involves international flows of wealth and power

38
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How does globalization alter global and social processes?

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Globalization accompanied by cultural homogenization into what is now a consumer culture that sees US based cultural products throughout the world

39
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How are institutions internationalized?

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Proliferation of international agreements challenge sovereignty of existing states (NAFTA)

40
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Which sociologist questioned whether states have lost control of their economies?

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Urmetzer

41
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What focuses on involvement of more than one state in an interaction?

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Transnationalism

42
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Who argued that States uphold international norms and implement laws, not international organizations?

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Tarrow

43
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What is the difference between a social movement and a social trend?

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Social movement try to achieve social change from below, a social trend is a changing pattern of social behavior

44
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What is an organization that aims to influence large institutions?

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Pressure group

45
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What theories have been developed to understand social movements?

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New Social Movements, Framing Theory & The Political Process Approach

46
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Why are new social movements (nsms) different from older class-based movements?

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NSMs are based in politics of cultural recognition and less concerned with redistribution of wealth and status. NSMs are more interested in securing right

47
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What does the NSM perspective focus on?

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Relationships between culture and collective identity

48
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What theory argues that movements establish meaning, form basis of collective identity and purpose through process of framing?

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Framing theory

49
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What are collective action frames?

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Sets of ideas and beliefs that serve to mobilize, legitimate movements activity

50
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What are the three sets of frames articulated by successful social movements?

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1) diagnostic frames define social problems
2) prognostic frames propose solutions to three problems
3) motivational frames persuade people to join the movement

51
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Who introduced the idea of frame alignment?

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Snow

52
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According to Snow, what describes the process whereby individuals come to adopt the ideology and methods of a particular movement?

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Frame alignment

53
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What approach argues that the polity can be characterized by opportunities and constraints?

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Political process approach

54
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What idea considers the role of mobilizing structures?

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Political process model

55
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What is an example of an informal organization?

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Friends

56
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What does Sklair say the relationship between globalization and social movements is?

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Global politics are like national politics, but on a larger scale

57
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What are the 3 factors that define a movement as global?

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1) grievances must be framed as global grievances
2) membership and organizational structure must be global in scale
3) collective identity is globalized