SOCY 200 Lecture Notes - Sociocracy, Universal Suffrage, France 5

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCY 200
• Professor: J.Pease

Document Summary

The democratic trend: single legal system, decline of monarchy, state no longer private property, universal suffrage a. Percentage eligible to vote in britain i. ii. iii. iv. 1947 - france: term limits, right of commoners to oppose elite interests, state programs to benefit the poor i. ii. iii. iv. i. ii. iii. iv. Industrial technology: required educated workers, created mass media. 1998: google created: mass political parties, protestant reformation, authority can be successfully challenged, all are created equal, all should be politically equal, frontier societies, absence of feudalism, strong merchant class c, first in revolution. Democracy: consent of the governed, system open to all, politicians accountable to citizens, legitimate process, democracies are capitalistic, same values. Under rule of law: political stability i. ii. i. ii. law a, standard of living c. ideology, military e, class is most common basis of political conflict social complexity. Presidential elections = 45% a: congressional elections = 60, local elections = 75%