SOA 108: FINAL EXAM
29 Cards in this Set
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Democracy
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A government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections
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Are the representatives truly representing all of us?
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No they are not!
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What is the delegate vote?
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Each state given a certain number of representatives
These vote are supposed to represent the communities of the delegates
candidate for the president can win the presidency with delegate votes even if he losses the popular election
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How much does it cost to run a presidential campaign?
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Cost of a Presidential Campaign- 8 Billion Dollars!
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Can a president win an election if he or she loses the popular vote?
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Yes
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Where are our rights as Americans listed?
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Bill of rights and the Constitution
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What does Universal Declaration of Human Rights created by the United Nations represent?
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represents the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled.
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Criticism about Obama Care is?
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Government mandate unconstitutional
Should not be able to mandate without a vote
Federal government can not take always states rights ( division of power)
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What is happening in the court system concerning the healthcare reform bill?
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The Supreme Court
Deciding now on Constitutionality of Obama's health care reform
Obama Challenging the court
Feels findings this unconstitutional would be unprecedented
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arguments for same sex marriage.
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All men are created equal
Access to same benefits
Legally recognize married
Legitimacy of children
There is no such thing as a traditional marriage
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Arguments against same sex marriage?
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Homosexuality is a choice
The bible says so
Marriage is on man and one women
The children!!
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Where is same sex marriage legal?
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Massachusetts Connecticut Iowa Vermont new Hampshire new York and District of Columbia
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What is the Defense of Marriage Act?
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Defense of Marriage Act
1996
Bill Clinton
Federal Law
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civil union?
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domestic partnership
A form of relationship recognition that gives same sex couples access to the state level rights and responsibilities of marriage ( but not federal)
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Proposition 8
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California Law
At state level defined marriage as one man one women
Outlawed same sex marriage in California
Ruled Unconstitutional in 2011
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Referendum 74
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Washington state
Define Marriage
Raised against Washington's recent legalization of same sex marriage
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Amendment 1
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North Carolina
To legally define marriage
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What do the major religions in the world feel about same sex marriage?
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Catholics- Against
Conservative Jews- Against
Orthodox Jews- Against
American Baptist- Against
Buddhism- no position
Mormon- against
Evangelical Lutheran- Against
Hinduism- no postion
Islam- Against
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. What are the presidential candidates views on same sex marriage?
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Obama for Romney against
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What is a “mass geriatric society?”
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Ages- 65-90
Fastest growing population
By 2020 20% of the US population will be old
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What are social movements?
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organized and persistent forms of collective behavior
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. What is social change?
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alteration of social interactions institutions, stratification systems and elements of culture of time.
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Revolutionary social movement
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Advocate replacement of the existing value of scheme
Alter or change the way things are.
Examples: Same sex marriage, civil rights, women's rights, suffrage movements, abolitionist movements, Occupy movements and Ant FGM movements.
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Reform Movements
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Change in the existing value scheme
Make the existing way better
Examples: Going Green, Obama's Health Care,
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Resistance Movements
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Instituting change or preventing or blocking change to an existing scheme or change in place
Ex- pro life
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Expressive movements
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Renovation and renewing of people from within
Promise of a future redemption
Ex. Born again virgin
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Trends and Stats of Human Trafficking:
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2.5 million people are forced into labor
Affects 161 countries
Profits at $31.6 billion/year
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Types of human trafficking
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Sex
Work labor
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In the U.S Trafficking?
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83% od sex trafficking victims are U.S. citizens
67% labor victims are undocumented aliens
81% suspects are male
8/10 cases involve sex trafficking
13% 25 or older (sex trafficking)
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SOA 108: EXAM 2