Which school of thought holds that the state arose to protect the rights of a privileged few?
Correct answer B. Conflict
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Legitimate possession of power is the definition of what?
Correct answer A. Authority
What is the opposite of a nuclear family?
Correct answer C. Extended family
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Which statement describes political control?
Correct answer B. Is social control exerted by forces outside the individual
What is the state’s relationship to force?
Correct answer B. It has a monopoly on it
What does political control refer to?
Correct answer A. Social control exercised by the government
Italy has changed political leaders many times since the Second World War, yet economic and legal specialists keep the country running. What type of authority do these specialists hold?
Correct answer C. Legal-rational
How do functionalists regard the state?
Correct answer C. Maintain order
According to Marx, when would the state disappear?
Correct answer A. Social classes ceased to exist
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What is true of a person influenced by nationalism?
Correct answer D. All of the above
In which kind of society is legal-rational authority most typical?
Correct answer D. Heterogeneous multicultural societies
How does the state differ from all other institutions?
Correct answer C. Its political control is complete
In whose work is the state said to emerge from a social contract?
Correct answer D. Thomas Hobbes
What is the position of the military in the United States?
Correct answer D. Subordinate to the government
Which was the first European people to form a nation?
Correct answer C. English
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Who held the view that nationalism would wither away?
Correct answer A. Marxists
How did the author of a famous treatise on the origin of the state describe life in the state of nature?
Correct answer A. "solitary poor nasty brutish and short"
What did American foreign aid after the Second World War achieve?
Correct answer A. Boosted international trade
On what has American military policy been based?
Correct answer B. Assured destruction capability
How are bodies such as the United Nations and the European Economic Community classified?
Correct answer A. IGOs