PSCI 1330 - Module 1 | Quizlet

Definition: an error in reasoning that renders an argument invalid.

• normative beliefs

• logical fallacy

• empirical beliefs

• critical thinking

Definition: (1) "Politics is who gets what, when, and how" -Harold Lasswell (2) "Politics is the authoritative allocation of values for a society" -David Easton (3) "Politics is the systematic process of resolving conflicts within any given society" -Mark Elrod.

• participatory democracy

• 3 definitions of politics

• deliberative democracy

• institutions

Definition: Society is based on an agreement between government and the governed in which people agree to give up some rights in exchange for the protection of others.

• mutualism

• social contract

• social responsibility

• direct democracy

Definition: Beliefs based on facts.

• critical thinking

• normative beliefs

• empirical beliefs

• causal adequacy principle

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

NGSS.HS-LS4-1

NGSS.HS-PS4-3

Definition: Has government procedural guarantees.

• economic conservatives

• regulated capitalism

• social capitalism

• laissez-faire capitalism

Definition: A government in which decisions are made through representatives of the people.

• democracy

• republic

• monarchy

• oligarchy

Definition: Power that people recognize as legitimate.

• majority rule

• politics

• authority

• institutions

Concerned with the play of power and politics across societies, which includes, but is not restricted to relations between the state and society.

• contemporary political sociology

• politics

• what sources may power derive from?

• structuralist approach.

Definition: emphasizes the way a capitalist economy operates, allowing and encouraging the state to do some things but not others.

• cynical approach

• structuralist approach

• behaviourist approach

• authoritarian systems

Definition: the preservation of the heritage of one nation, or of a shared culture that is not defined by national boundaries.

• cultural conservatism

• pluralism

• social conservatism

• fiscal conservatism