SOCL 4401 Midterm: MIDTERM notes for SOCL 4401
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Describe liberalism or conservatism: conservative, more likely to resist popular participation in the government, more likely to accept traditional norms and be critical of those who oppose them, less likely to turn to governmental intervention for social change or reducing inequalities, more likely to blame the individual or group rather than blame the society or system, tends to accept inequalities as natural , tends to be cautious of extending equal rights to all citizens. The process: resource scarcity, increased competition for valued resources, division of group into majority and minority based on physical and/or cultural attributes, majority attempts to exclude; minority attempts to usurp, majority offers defense for its actions; undividable distinctions between majority and minority, assumptions, members of the dominant group define rules and regulations that structure the organization, day to day operations of the institution reflect the long and short term interests of the dominant group, member of the majority benefit; members of the minority suffer.
