Ekonomia dhe Shoqeria - Kultura Politike

CHAPTER 9: THE ECONOMY AND SOCIETY
Economic systems as forms of organisation through which goods and services are produced, distributed and exchanged (pp. 178-9).
Enterprise capitalism as a form of capitalism based on the untrammelled workings of market competition (pp. 180-1).
Social capitalism as an attempt to marry the disciplines of market competition with the need for social cohesion and solidarity (p. 182).
Collective capitalism as a form of capitalism that emphasises cooperative long-term relationships (pp. 182-3).
Arguments for and against economic management within a capitalist context (pp. 183-5).
State socialism as an economic system based on state collectivization and central planning (p. 187).
Market socialism as a self-managing enterprises operating in a context of market competition (p. 188).
Economic third ways as attempts to construct market models that conform to neither a capitalist or socialist template (pp. 188-90).
Social class as a social cleavage based on the unequal distribution of income, wealth and social status (pp. 191-2).
The decline of class politics linked to the deradicalization of the working class and the general process of de-industrialization (pp. 192-3).
The underclass as a group of people who suffer from multiple deprivation and disadvantage (pp. 193-4).
Race as a source of social and political division which supposedly has a physical or genetic basis (pp. 194-5).
Gender as a social or political division between women and men that is rooted either in biology or cultural differences (pp. 195-6).
CHAPTER 10: POLITICAL CULTURE, COMMUNICATION AND LEGITIMACY
Civic culture as a political culture that helps to support stable, democratic government (pp. 200-1).
Ideological hegemony as the theory that ruling-class ideas help to sustain class oppression because they have a decisive advantage over rival ideas in capitalist societies (pp. 201-2).
The mass media as societal institutions concerned with the production and distribution of knowledge, information and entertainment (pp. 202-6).
Political communication as techniques for the control and dissemination of information, based on closer links between government and the media (pp. 206-7).
Social capital as norms of trust and civic engagement that underpin successful communities and good governance (pp. 207-10).
Means of legitimizing power, particularly through the exercise of different forms of authority (pp. 211-3).
Tendencies within industrialized societies towards legitimation crises stemming from tensions between capitalism and democracy (pp. 213-5).
Marxist theories of revolution as attempts to explain revolutions by reference to contradictions that exist at a socio-economic level (pp. 215-7).
Non-Marxist theories of revolution as explanations of revolutions based on systemic imbalance, frustrated rising expectations or the weaknesses of the state (pp. 217-9).