POLS 212 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Populism, Communitarianism, Slacktivism
29 May 2016
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Class analysis (marxism: control of capital. Feminism: patriarchy realized through the state and social relations. Postmodernism: diffuse systems of control, knowledge as power, power relations on a micro level, attempts to identify how problems become to be perceived as such. Unwritten rules of the game = access. Venues: elections & legislatures; the bureaucracy; the courts: social movements; Actors: governments, bureaucrats, academics, activists, the people . The general values, beliefs and behaviors of a society. Definition of what is or is not political. Expectations of what government should or should not do. Patterns of political activities of members of that society. Culture; dictates the kinds of ideologies that resonate in a society. Individual beliefs of how social, political and economic relations are or ought to be. Classic versus contemporary forms are quite different: liberalism, conservatism, socialism. What is the centre? centrism as an ideology: spectrum of politics:
