After reading and studying Chapter Eleven, the student should be able to:
Distinguish between power, authority, and coercion.
Describe the relationship of violence to the state, including prisoner abuse in Abu Ghraib prison.
Compare and contrast traditional, rational-legal, and charismatic authority, providing examples of each.
Discuss types of government including monarchies, democracies, dictatorships, and oligarchies, comparing and contrasting each.
Distinguish between direct and representative democracies.
Discuss how Democrats and Republicans are similar and different in their ideologies and appeal to Americans.
Describe and explain the relationship between voting behavior and race/ethnicity, education, employment, income, age, and sex.
Assess the impact of lobbyists, special interest groups, and PACs on the U.S. political system and how this translates into domestic and foreign policy.
Compare and contrast the functionalist and conflict perspectives on who rules America and US civil liberties after September 11, 2001.
Discuss how the concept of war changed through the 20th century and the threats of terrorism to governments worldwide, regardless of their power.
Trace the five types of economies in human history by identifying the inventions that inspired them.
Discuss how and why social inequality developed as well as patterns of production and consumption in the industrialized society.
Discuss economic trends in the U.S. including reduction in jobs and benefits, stagnant paychecks, and income inequalities.
Distinguish the major features of world economic systems, how they are alike as well as different.
Outline the key features of capitalism and socialism and describe the ideologies of each.
Explain why there are no pure capitalist or socialist economies in the world today and the merits of an economy based on democratic socialism.
Explain convergence theory and why it is a trend for global economies.
Discuss capitalism in a global economy including the concepts of corporate capitalism, oligopolies, interlocking directorates, and multinational corporations.
Discuss the term "New World Order" and how the development of such a concept can improve national economies as well as harm them.
