power (social sciences)

"While Louis grazes in the meadow, a crown, blown by the wind, lands at his feet. Louis places the crown on his head and becomes Louis the 1st, King of the sheep. A fable about power, indifference and conformity, and how those who do not think for themselves will eventually suffer the consequences"--OCLC.

"The ... tale of the rise to power of Russia's current president--of his emergence from shrouded obscurity and deprivation to become one of the most consequential and complicated leaders in modern history. ... This ... narrative elucidates a cool and calculating man with enormous ambition and few scruples. We see Putin, a former KGB agent, come to office in 2000 as a reformer, cutting taxes, expanding property rights, bringing a measure of order and eventual prosperity to millions whose only experience of democracy in the early years following the Soviet collapse was instability, poverty, and criminality. But Myers makes clear how Putin then orchestrated a new authoritarianism, consolidating power, reasserting the country's might, brutally crushing revolts, and swiftly dispatching dissenters, even as he retained--and continues to retain--the support of many"--Provided by publisher.

Details the events that have led to the disruption of relations between ordinary citizens and the social elite, including such organizations as Congress, Wall Street, and professional sports. Reveals how this crisis of authority threatens to upend American culture and politics and considers where this turn of events may lead.

Six lessons for which instructional support and teaching steps are provided in the unit curriculum guide. Each lessons unfolds in four stages: Inquiry, Observation, Analysis, Synthesis. In this unit students examine aspects of power in United States history. They begin by considering citizenz' rights and their rights as students. They go on to study how power is gained and used in the context of four historic episodes: the woman suffrage movement, the African American struggle for equality in the first 50 years after emancipation, government's expanding role during the Great Depression, and shifting views of the United States' role in world affairs from 1914 to 1941. In the unit's final project, students explore how some Americans are using their power to work for the common good, and they discover ways in which they, too, might participate.

A study of power in the 1990s and beyond traces the shifting global power structures and describes how the very definition of power has changed in modern times.

When a strange white man asks to spend the summer in Charles Blakey's basement, Charles is a bit suspicious, but agrees to let hims stay, and soon finds himself pulled into his new tennant's bizarre world.