POLS 110 Study Guide - Final Guide: Cultural Pluralism, Harm Principle
1 Sep 2016
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Pols 110a lectures 7 and 8 (week 4) intro to concepts: freedom, equality, justice. Without equality extraordinary material success can still equal social failure. Statistically, people in a more socio-economically equal society: Call for a focus on the redistribution of economic wealth rather than economic growth. Health problems can arise from social status. Chronic stress: low social status, weak friendships networks, poor early childhood. Increased status competition and status insecurity means those with second rate possessions are seen as second rate people . Related to protective democracy because it is freedom from government with the addition of the harm principle. In order to be free you need . Related to developmental democracy because of government intervention to create freedom. Role of government is to confront conditions that make society unfree . 1: disease -- healthcare, squalor -- pollution and environmental laws.
