HISTORY GUIDE

4 MAIN ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION THAT DEFINE THE POLITICAL IDEOLOGY

4 MAIN ELEMENTS

• Family
• Social groups
• Education
• Political conditions

Family
-Influence positive or negative

SOCIAL GROUPS

• Race
• Gender
• Religion
• Age
• Social status

Education
-What has been teaching us, point of vew of the teacher

Political Conditions
-Define beliefs. mobilizacion de la gente ->liberalist

IDEALISTS

• Human nature= good
• International relations=peacefull: Onu, Nato, UE
• Morality
• Nation should do whats right insteas of just in national interest

REALISM

• Human nature= born evil
• International relationship= power onu: dominated US
• Dominance
• "America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interest"
• Self interest: good for its people

LIBERALIST

• Left
• Protectionist government
• Participation: social, economic-regulation of taxes
• Help the minorities
• Equality
• Yes army but not much

CONSERVATIVE

• Right
• Traditions
• No minorities
• Small government
• Against rise taxes
• Private sector
• In favor of the army
• Free market

AFRICA ETHNIC DIVERSITY
-Hundreds of ethnolinguistic groups
-Several share the same state

FACTORS THAT AFFECT AFRICA

• Impoverishment and demography
• Postcolonial exploitation
• International Conflicts
• Health Problems

ETHNIC CONFLICT: SUDAN

• Arab muslims in north control
• Southern christians wage for autority
• Civil war: 2013
• Peace deal sign recently

ETHNIC CONFLICT: NIGERIA

• People of nigeria try to separate= Biafra
• New country reintegrated into Nigerian federation
• Resentment continue
• Biafra is the main producer of oil but benefits are few for them

INTERNECINE WARS: ANGOLA

• Factions fight the Portuguese
• Withdraw: stuggle with power
• Marxist group control gov but rivals with South African support fight
• War ended 27 years later

INTERNECINE WARS: LIBERIA Y SIERRA LEONA

• Warlord fight for power in Liberia
• Charles Taylor, moves to sierra leona to control dimonds and secure resources
• In Sierra Leona, local rebels amd Liberians unleash a brutal campaigne of terror

INTERNECINE WARS: SOMALIA

• Popular revolt overthrow dictator Mohammed Siad
• Clans dispute territory and humanitarian aid
• UN peacekeeping fails
• New government, itching towards stability
• Authorities still face Al-Qaeda and Al-Shabab insurgents

TRAFFICKING OF SLAVES

• Poster of auction of American slaves in Charleston
• Entire regions of sub-saharian africa where left uninhabited by slave trade
• Traffic was carried by Arab, British and Portuguese slavers

MICROECONOMY
-The study of individuals and business decisions

MACROECONOMY
-Study of the entore economy.
-Economy is always growing and it looks at higher up a country and governments decisions

Gross Domestic Product
-Best way to measure a country's economy

RECESSION
-When two successive quarters or six months, show a decrease in real GDP

DEPRESSION
-Severe recession

INFLATION RATE
-Percentage change in the price of the basket over time

TYPES OF UNEMPLOYMENT

• Frictional Unemployment
• Structural Unemployment
• Cyclical Unemployment

FRICTIONAL UNEMPLOYMENT
-The time period between jobs when a worker is searching or transionating from one job to another

STRUCTURAL UNEMPLOYMENT
-Cost by the lack of demand for worker's specific type of labor

CYCLICAL UNEMPLOYMENT
-Due to a recession
-Economist and the government fear this type of unemployment
-Not enough money, fire workers