I have some questions having to do with Sociology...?

Question

1.) Why do some critics say that the US is not really a democracy?

2.) How do social movements both encourage and resist social change?

3.) How does who and what are defined as deviant reflect social inequality?

Answer 1

I dont really have the time to answer all the questions right now but I can do number 1.

The U.S isn't a Democracy. It is a Republic. The difference is in a democracy ever person votes on issues and it is majority rules. A republic is when the people elect officials to do what they would do. America couldnt have a Democracy because it would take to much time to have every one vote on every issue and tallying up all the votes would be a monster task.

So now in a Republic you elect people to vote for you and as of 2000 people haven't been using there votes wisely and no we have incompetent leaders making this country worse off than it was.

Answer 2

1. Because there have probably been some cheating in an election. I mean was it cheating or are americans just as stupid as we all thought? The U.S. discriminate homosexuals and others more than any other industrialized country that comes up at the top of my head.

2. Some cross the line between wanting to make something equal and making something more dominant. For example, let's say that I'm talking about equality between the races or something, but then I go over the line and say: Black people should be allowed to do more things than white people. I don't think that the should get to call people the n-word if we can't. Just as much as women shouldn't go around calling eachothers wh*r* if guys can't etc.

3. What? 0_o

Answer 3

1)Maybe because it is not a democracy, like the USSR was not really communist. The US is a... oh p**p, I can't think of the name of it.

2)I can see how social movements could be said to encourage social change, it is obvious, but the only way I can see them as resisting social change is by staying alive for a long enough time that they are out dated and and have started to hold back social change.

3)Well because the views of the "deviant" are ignored when they may be as valid as any other more mainstream views, creating the inequality.