FINAL EXAM REVIEW
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The Final Examination has 40 multiple-choice questions. The questions on the final are taken from the textbook and the online materials. The following review is comprehensive. That means that if you see it here, you'll see it on the test. If you don't see it here, you're not responsible for it. Good luck on the final. Let me know if you have questions.

  1. What are people who are strongly committed to an ideology and try to persuade others to accept it called?

  2. Which term best describes an attempt to bring about a radical transformation of society?

  3. According to the functional definition of ideology, what do all ideologies try to do?

  4. According to the triadic model, what is freedom?

  5. According to MacCallum’s triadic model of freedom, what are the three aspects of freedom?

  6. To what form of government was Plato adamantly opposed?

  7. What is the form of government favored by Machiavelli?

  8. What form of government id the American Founders attempt to create?

  9. What did Alexis de Tocqueville believe that democracy leads to?

  10. Majority rule must be limited to protect individual rights and liberties, according to what kind of democracy?

  11. Who takes the view that the government should not forbid "capitalist acts between consenting adults" (R. Nozick)?

  12. Of what was Adam Smith was an early critic?

  13. What did Jeremy Bentham call his philosophy?

  14. According to John Locke’s idea of the social contract, why do people consent to establish government?

  15. In general, liberals have believed that most people are what?

  16. The belief that human beings are interconnected, like the parts of the body, is part of what view of society?

  17. Why are Neoconservatives and traditional conservatives  somewhat suspicious of capitalism?

  18. What is the difference between reactionaries and other conservatives?

  19. Which group of conservatives is most likely to favor unrestricted, laissez-faire economic competition?

  20. What are all conservatives are generally in favor of?

  21. What do all socialists agree is one of the major obstacles to human freedom?

  22. What was Karl Marx’s view of human nature?

  23. According to Marx, the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat eventually will be followed by what?

  24. Contrary to Marx and Lenin, Josef Stalin insisted on the need to do what?

  25. Who added the ideas of the rural proletariat and proletarian nations to Marxist-Leninism?

  26. Who argued that means, or moral considerations, should be as important as the victory of socialism?

  27. Although he agreed with Marx on the need for a revolution, what did Mikhail Bakunin criticized Marx for?

  28. What were Mao Zedong’s contributions to Marxist theory?

  29. In any society or large organization, a small group will always end up with the real power, according to what philosopher and 'law'?

  30. According to the Nazi conception of freedom, what is the agent in the triadic model?

  31. What are the essential elements of the Nazi (and neo-Nazi) ideology?

  32. Georges Sorel, a thinker who apparently influenced the Italian Fascists, claimed that people are moved by what?

  33. According to the Nazis, the ideas of the Enlightenment were Jewish ideas that promote what?

  34. The people who advocate liberation theology encourage Christians to to do what?

  35. What is the difference between liberal feminists and radical feminists?

  36. What does the wilderness view of environmentalism believe about the relationship between humans and nature?

  37. What is Malthus’ Law?

  38. What does the ecological or Green perspective believe about connectivity?

  39. Who would be most likely to take the garden view rather than the wilderness view of nature?

  40. According to Ball and Dagger, why are political ideologies not about to end or disappear?

 


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Last updated: 03 February 2012