Week 5

Prep

  • Conley (2019), Ch. 15 (‘Authority and the State’): ‘Types of Legitimate Authority’; ‘Obedience to Authority’; ‘Authority, Legitimacy, and the State’; ‘Radical Power and Persuasion’; ‘Beyond Strawberry and Vanilla: Political Participation in Modern Democracies’; ‘Policy: What if the House Is Too Small?’; ‘Conclusion’

Zoom Session 

  1. Attendance
  2. Democracy and Dictatorship
  3. Keywords: hegemony and soft power
  4. Keywords: paranoid style, the
  5. Keywords: power
  6. Keywords: democracy  
  7. Review of Midterm Guidelines
  8. Review of Class Participation Self-Evaluation Guidelines
  9. Q&A

For Next Time

  • HW: Annotated Bibliography Assignment
  • Lennie Irvin, ‘What Is “Academic” Writing?’, in Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing (Parlor Press)
  • Conley (2015), Ch. 5 (‘Groups and Networks’): ‘Social Groups’; ‘From Groups to Networks’; ‘Network Analysis in Practice’; ‘Organizations’; ‘Conclusion’. Keywords: iron cage of rationality, the

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