Exam 7: Conflict and Cooperation: Alienation and Equality

Who viewed society as composed of multiple temporary as well as semi-permanent alliances of self-interested individuals that coalesce and dissolve as their interests wax and wane?

____________ was an individualist who viewed alienation as the result of individuals being too engaged with the whole, too assimilated into the community, and too concerned with its conformity demands.

____________recognized that people have different abilities, but in his society they would not be granted license to benefit from them.

____________ view of alienation was that it was a material condition that could only be alleviated by a socialist mode of production that would allow humans to realize their human essence.

Who contended that conflict will always exist regardless of the social or economic nature of society?

A _________ view of society implies widespread discord, the seriousness of which ranges from minor disputes to wars and revolutions.

Which theorists are aware that conflicts often arise in social life, but stress that most are temporary, and can be and are solved within the framework of shared fundamental values by a neutral legal system?

Weber felt that social life had nothing to do with the pursuit of social power.

Who believed that capitalism provided opportunities to develop charisma because "it fosters entrepreneurship, the mother of charisma"?

Marx believed that wage labor thus quite literally de-humanizes human beings by taking from them their creative advantage over other animals-robbing them of the species being and reducing them to the level of animals.

Who felt that once capitalism created abundance, we could slay the golden goose, change the division of labor, abolish class divisions and inequality, and still continue to enjoy economic and material progress?

According to the text, ___________ knew enough about human nature that he would never trust an intellectual elite convinced that they alone have the truth and the right, indeed the obligation, to coerce the rest of us into conformity.

Which theorists consider the distribution of the income and wealth to be primary source of conflict within Western societies?

Weber thought that ________ denotes economic power and is non-social or "barely social" because it is instrumental in orientation and lacks any sense of shared social belonging.

In his last work, Laws, Plato recognized that the state he had envisioned in the Republic was an impossibility given human nature, although he continued to see it as the ideal state.