SOC 103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8-12: Institutional Racism, Socialist Feminism, Heterosexism
6 Dec 2016
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State: is an organized political structure that carries out tasks required by more complex societies as their population and geographic size, increase as warfare and trade expand, and as social inequalities become more extreme. Pluralism: a theoretical position that argues that power in capitalist societies is spread among a wide number of equally influential interest groups and associations which guarantees that no one group can dominate the others. Progressive taxation: occurs when citizens are taxed on the basis of their ability to pay. The more income one has the more taxes one pays. Regressive taxation: there is no connection between the amount of wealth or income one has and tax one pays. Transfer payments: payments from on level to another level of government. Rule of law: a formally determined set of rules or principles that applies in theory at least to all with its jurisdiction.
