Socio-Political Organization: Leadership Opportunities and Social Control
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By Week 4, you should be well underway with your research for your Group project and Compare/Contrast paper. To encourage that, you will submit a reference list with your intended research sources. Please note that you are not locked into using these and other sources may be added later. Your instructor may suggest the removal of some selected sources, as well as suggesting others for those later assignments.
For this assignment, submit a reference list of at least five (5) reliable sources (at least two of which are academic) related to the cultural attribute you are researching in the type of culture your group has been assigned. For each, include a one-paragraph summary of the source, as well as why the source was chosen and how it will inform your compare/contrast paper and your portion of the fictional ethnography.
The reference list should conform to APA 7th edition style
Socio-Political Organization: Leadership Opportunities and Social Control
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Blühdorn, I. (2019). The dialectic of democracy: modernization, emancipation and the great regression. Democratization, 27(3), 389–407.
This article questions democratic development narratives. The author examines the complex relationship between democracy, modernization, and liberation, challenging the linear trajectory of democratic countries. Blühdorn explores the contradiction of democratic ideals, contrasting the promise of emancipation with the reality of regression. The author challenges the idea that democracy constantly improves society and questions continual progress. The article illustrates Blühdorn's point by underlining modern democracy's complexity. Democracies generally regress rather than progress, according to the author. This retreat is not an indication of democratic failure but of complex processes. Blühdorn presents a sophisticated view of democracy as a dialectical process of growth and regression. Understanding socio-political organization, leadership opportunities, and social control in a cultural context requires this critical perspective on democracy's dialectics. Blühdorn challenges the linear narrative to rethink democracy's impact on leadership. The dialectical method allows for a more nuanced examination of democratic systems' multidimensional character and cultural effects. This source is vital as it provides a theoretical foundation for the comparative study of socio-political organization, leadership structures, and social control mechanisms across cultures as societies navigate democracy. The dialectics of democracy are fundamental to understanding socio-political organization, leadership opportunities, and social control in a cultural setting. This source provides a theoretical framework. It allows critical