It can be argued that Britain is both democratic and undemocratic; this can be shown via a range of issues relating to British politics and the society in which we live. Democracy is a form of government in which supreme power is held completely by the people under a free electoral system. It states that all citizens have equal access to power and that all people enjoy the right to universally recognised freedoms. It is also the freedom of expression‚ speech and other civil liberties. The selection
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Etymologically‚ democracy comes from two Greek words‚ demos and cratein. Demos means society while cratein means authority. There are many terminological definitions of democracy‚ one of it is definition is by Henry B. Mayo stating that democracy is a political system showing the public policy determined by representatives audited effectively by the society by having periodic elections based on principles of political similarities in a situation where there is freedom to choose. This means that
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Chapter Summary Society is organized "to get its job done". It does so through formal organizations and bureaucracies. The same system that can be frustrating and impersonal is also the one on which we rely for our personal welfare and to fulfill our daily needs. The society of today‚ however is not the society of yesterday‚ nor will it be the society of tomorrow. The rationalization of society refers to a transformation in people’s thinking and behavior over the past 150 years‚ shifting the focus
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be acquitted § Socrates tried to disprove the Oracle who said Socrates was the wisest Athenian‚ Socrates did not think this was true but on the other hand he believed his Oracle was right (charge #2) § Socrates spent his whole life based on what the Oracle stated □ How can you say/charge him with Impiety when his whole life has been based on the
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constitutional monarchies are democracies; they are not direct democracies‚ however‚ which do away with elected representatives in favour of rule by popular referendum (no country today uses such a system). So‚ all democracies have elected representatives. At its most basic‚ a democracy is a system of government where leaders are chosen by election‚ but there are other criteria. After all‚ Russia‚ Uzbekistan‚ and Egypt all have elections‚ but they are emphatically not democracies. Even the USSR had elections
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divorce between academic and popular historians. As Margaret Conrad argues‚ popular historians have established the tension‚ by recreating “historical films without the involvement of trained historians”. This underscores the troubling gulf that sometimes separates public academics approaches to the past. Academic historians have been “too long focused” on professionalism‚ and discarded “generating” a “dialogue” (Conrad) with their contextual audiences. The substantial dissolution between academic
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keep structure in our daily lives. However‚ bureaucracy is not always right. The government can often prove it can not be credible‚ plausible‚ or dependable. For as long as democracy has been in place‚ people have disagreed with it. Yet‚ if it were not for these disputes‚ government would never be anything that it is today. It is appropriate to go against the government if there is a conscience-challenged problem that can be solved civilly.
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provides us with pretty much all of our food. Bureaucracy- A system of government where the state officials (non-elected civil servants) make the important decisions. Bureaucracy is usually referred to as complicated and disorganized. It does‚ however‚ allow a country to make a great amount of money through taxes‚ this is why a bureaucracy in more common during a time of war. England and France were both bureaucracies at one point. A modern example of bureaucracy
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Compared to other political forms‚ democratic government is the fairest and just way to govern the citizens within a society. This can be showcased through the differences between fascism‚ and democracy‚ an example being Hitler’s fascist Germany back in 1933‚ compared to modern democracies of today. Democracy advocates and protects all individuals within a society‚ the same cannot be said for fascism societies‚ where elitism and hatred are ingrained within the ideology. Within the Third Reich‚ Hitler
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The Conflicts Between Women and Men In the early 1900s and late 1800s‚ women were treated not as equal as men‚ and were considered as the attachment of men and helpless in society. Their low positions in both a relationship with their husbands and society were revealed in many realism dramas. In play Trifles (Glaspell) and A Doll House (Ibsen)‚ men’s attitude to women causes conflicts. In both plays ‚Trifles and A Doll House‚ the women are considered mere trifles without
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