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Canada

Has a dual influence of English and French culture

Political Organization

There has been a conflict in Quebec due to its large French-Canadian population. Quebec has tried many times to become its own nation, but ultimately would not do well on its own. French-Canadians have been the target of discrimination for years.

Political Process

Power & Authority

Power is the ability to impose one's will on others

The way people use power to achieve goals

Authority is a social approved use of power

United States

Nation-State

North Korea

within a nation-state, there are many different ethnic groups

State Society

Constructions that link the past to the present

Have a great sense of nationalism

State societies have a hierarchical, centralized form of political organization in which the central government has a legal monopoly over the use of force

Benedict Anderson (1991)

calls Nation-States "Imagined communities"

Within this society there are fixed rules imposed by the government

Through taxation, the government redistributes wealth and can stimulate/discourage sorts of production

Egypt

Social Control and Conflict Management

A revolution is the attempt to overthrow the existing political structure and replace it

Rebellion is the attempt of a group within a society to force a redistribution of resources and power

Rwanda

Iraq

Hutu & Tutsi

Shi'a & Sunni Muslims

The majority of Sunni and Shi'a muslims view each other as equals and are not hostile or prejudiced toward one another.

However, there are radicals in each group where hostility and tension remains.

  • Result of conflicts between the Hutu and Tutsi after the Hutu had come to power through rebellion in 1959-62.
  • 1990: Tutsi group the Rwandan Patriot Force attempt to overthrow Hutu government
  • Eventually leads to the Rwandan Genocide.

Uganda

Pygmy of the Congo

Band Society

Chiefdoms are a society with social rankings in which political integrations are achieved through a centralized leadership (the Chief)

Band societies are composed of a small group of people related by blood or marriage, who live together and are associated with a territory in which they forage

Chiefs are born into their position of power, they hold religious and political authority over his people

These societies are normally based on horticulture and pastoralism

Aborigines

Tribal Society

Tribes are a culturally distinct population whose members consider themselves descended from the same ancestor

Tribes have a variety of informal and formal mechanisms for controlling deviant behaviors and settling conflicts

The Aboriginal people believe in a creator called Baiame (creator spirits)

Political Organizations

Politics Around the world

By: Daniell LaFleur, Charity Owens,

Jamie Hesselberg

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