Domestic Social and Political Systems

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Domestic Social and Political Systems

• Chapter Ten

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Sociopolitical Conditions

• Individual Life Conditions
• In this category we place income, life
  expectancy,literacy rate, fertility rate, calorie
  availability or nutrition level, safe water and
  air.
• Social Organizational Conditions
• In this category we place democratization,
  social status of women, income distribution, and
  corruption in economic political life.

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Life Expectancy Since 1960

• Global Rates
• -global life expectancy grew from 55 to 66
• -fertility rate has dropped from 4.9 to 2.9
• -food calories per capita advanced by 15
• Low income countries
• -life expectancy grew from 48 to 63
• -fertility rate has dropped from 6.1 to 3.3
• -food calories per capita advanced 25
• -literacy rate grew from under 30 to 65

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Domestic Social Organization

• The third wave of global democratization began
  running in the late 1970s and accelerated with
  the collapse of communism in the early 1990s

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Sociopolitical Dynamics

• The dynamics in sociopolitical conditions
  are driven by the level of GDP per capita and the
  social conditions.
• There are three elements in the
  characteristics of this relationship
• Sweet Spot
• Steady Slog
• Systematic Shifts

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Characteristics

• Sweet Spot
• -starts low but increases the level of GDP per
  capita. Social conditions improve rapidly but
  will slows down at higher levels of improvement
• -deals mainly with individual life condition

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Characteristics

• Steady Slog
• -wide range of GDP per capita and social change
  will also improve, especially at higher levels
  but at a fairly constant rate regardless of the
  level of the GDP per capita
• -deals mainly with social organizations

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Characteristics

• Systematic Shifts
• -can occur with the steady slog and or the
  sweet spot
• -relationship between GDP per capita social
  conditions shift significantly

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Possible Quiz Questions

1. What are the two main categories of
   sociopolitical condition? ____________and
   ____________
2. T/F Life Expectancy is a function of individual
   life conditions.
3. T/F Social Status of a women is not a function of
   social organizational conditions.
4. Globally life expectancy grew from ____to____
   since 1960.

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Possible Quiz Questions

• 5. T/F The Literacy rate grew from under 30 to
  65.
• 6. T/F Sweet Spot deals mainly with social
  organizations.
• 7. T/F Steady Slog deals mainly with individual
  life conditions.
• 8. T/F Systematic Shift cant occur with Steady
  Slog or Sweet Spot.
• 9. T/F The fall of communism in the early 1990s
  accelerated a 3rd wave of global democratization.