Chapter 7 Groups and Organizations I. A social group is defined as two or more people who identify and interact with one another. A. Primary and secondary groups. 1. A primary group is a small social group whose members share personal and enduring relationships. a. People in primary groups share many activities‚ spend a great deal of time together‚ and feel they know one another well. b. Families are primary groups in that they are the first groups we experience in life and because they
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instance‚ the Middle Colonies had their government and church seperated. The New England Colonies‚ however‚ were a Theocracy‚ which meant that the church controlled the government. The Southern Colonies had the least autonomy since they were an Oligarchy. This meant that the wealthy plantation owners controlled the government because they were the only people who could manage to pay for all their own expenses. Even though the three colonies were all self-ruled‚ they all had distinguishing (recognize
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grew at the same right as it did but if the inequality had not increased‚ then the average income of households would be $12‚000 higher” (24). Since 1980‚ America has moved away from the mixed-economy cluster and traveled towards the capitalist oligarchies (4). The authors use the study of Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez to prove the growth of economic inequality. their evidence shows that the economy has become favorable
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Millions of years ago‚ the current seven continents of the world were unified in a supercontinent known as Pangaea. In order to better understand how continents work‚ our group has created a map making a new continent in another hypothetical Earth. This continent is known as Company Continent. On this landmass‚ there are six cities. These cities are known as Appletopolis‚ Pixar Palace‚ Yum! Brands Village‚ Galaxy Retreat‚ Training Camp‚ and Windows City. The inspiration for the names of the cities
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introducing the unnecessary appetites. These appetites were originally responsible for the degeneration of the ideal constitution. The unnecessary desires smuggle in the lawless desires. The Kallipolis‚ timocracy and oligarchy each had three required parts. The move to democracy introduced two new parts‚ the unnecessary and the lawless appetites. V To explain imitation in Bk. X Socrates returns to furniture (596b). He distinguishes the form of the bed from the physical bed from the imitative artistic
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The rapidly expanding economy towards the end of the Archaic Age allowed society to experiment with new forms of political systems. Previously‚ city-states were mainly governed monarchy and occasionally forms of tyranny and oligarchy. The rise of democracy saw previously unseen levels of ‘fairness’ in society‚ as it even included lower-class citizens in the voting process. The democratic process‚ particularly in Athenian society involved a system called “direct democracy”.
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According to Socrates a just city where most of the population is virtuous‚ because a just city is based on the virtues of wisdom‚ moderation‚ and courage. The reason the city came into existence was for justice‚ not pleasure and happiness. Wisdom and good judgment are based upon knowledge. Also‚ Socrates examines the effect of wealth on craftsmen‚ and states that if a potter gets rich‚ he will not be concerned for his craft and will become lazy and a bad potter; unless he remains poor‚ then he wont
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Around 500 BCE there were two city states that were controlling powers in Greece. These two city states were Athens and Sparta. These two city states were very different with Sparta being a military state with an Oligarchy‚ and Athens‚ a naval‚ peaceful state with a democracy. Sparta is the better city state because they have the best army‚ the safest city‚ they are the leader of the Peloponnesian league‚ they have rights for women‚ and have strongest government. Sparta is the best city state with
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bicameralism d. executive hegemony e. popular elections for all national officials 8. A(n) __________ is a type of government in which one person with unlimited power rules. a. democracy b. autocracy c. republic d. unified government e. oligarchy 9. What is the name given to the law that would govern human beings before governments existed? a. original law b. Biblical law c. natural law d. Constitutional law e. universal law 10. Which article provides that the Constitution
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The role that the federal government played in the period surrounding the strike was mainly to help factory owners put an end on strikes. According to President Grover Cleveland‚ he believed that the Pullman strike was wasteful‚ disruptive and unlawful (Hewitt and Lawson‚ pg. 556). He thought that the Pullman trouble originated because neither the public nor the government had taken acceptable measures to control monopolies and corporations and had failed to “reasonably protect the rights of labor
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