POL 128 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Blu-Ray, General Film Company, Democratic Socialism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POL 128
• Professor: Joseph Zboralski

Document Summary

Definitions: decision making mechanisms, conflict resolution, allocation of values. In society you will always have conflict because so many people want so many different things. Empirical: looking at politics/society/the world as it is. Normative: looking at politics/society/the world and how it should be. Power: the ability to get what you want, regardless of what others want. The more often you can get what you want, the more powerful you are. 60-70% of the canadian economy is owned by foreign entities: government. Nation (people: ethnic nationalism, civic nationalism (united states, not based on an ethnic group, but on america itself. Mass media: form of communication that affects large numbers of people. Types of media: print books, newspaper, magazines, etc, various impacts, political, scientific, economic, social, galileo, invented the telescope, electronic, telegraph, telephone, radio, television, film, digital, computer, internet, social media. Theories of media: liberal theory, social responsibility, public ownership, regulation - crtc, subsidies telefilm, authoritarian, marxist.