Learning Objectives

  1. Contrast democracy and dictatorship.
  2. Outline who rules the United States using the perspectives of structural/functional and conflict/critical theories.
  3. Explain how global politics affect war and terrorism, geopolitics, and the nationstate.
  4. Describe the U.S. economy’s transition from industrialization to deindustrialization.
  5. Discuss how work, consumption, and leisure shape our understanding of the economy.
  6. Describe the effects of globalization on the world economy.