SOCA02H3 Final: POLITICS SELECTED KEY TERMS DEFINITIONS FOR FROM LECTURES FOR FINAL
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Pol i t ics selected key ter ms. Patriarchy: a form of social organization in which a male is the head of the family and descent, kinship, and title are traced through the male line. Peerage: the body of peers of a country or state. Codification: the act, process, or result of stating the rules and principles applicable in a given legal order to one or more broad areas of life in this form of a code. Impeach: to accuse (a public official) before an appropriate tribunal of misconduct in office. Bureaucratic: of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a bureaucrat or a bureaucracy; arbitrary and routine. Volatile: tending or threatening to break out into open violence; explosive: a volatile political situation. Diabolical: having the qualities of a devil; devilish; fiendish; outrageously wicked. Mao tse-tung: one of the leading communists of the last century. His theories on communism, warfare and revolution have been extremely influential.
