Question

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1. According to C. Wright Mills, what groups constitute the power elite? Have these groups changed over time? Explain.

2. According to the pluralist model of power, what protects people from the abuse of power by any one group? In what ways does this work in the United States?

Answer 1

1. It is a term used by the American sociologist (see sociology) C. Wright Mills to describe a relatively small, loosely knit group of people who tend to dominate American policymaking.According to Mills, the eponymous "power elite" are those that occupy the dominant positions, in the dominant institutions (military, economic and political) of a dominant country, and their decisions (or lack of decisions) have enormous consequences, not only for the U.S. population but, "the underlying populations of all strata.
2. Pluralism is a term used in philosophy, meaning "doctrine of multiplicity", often used in opposition to monism ("doctrine of unity") and dualism ("doctrine of duality"). ... In epistemology, pluralism is the position that there is not one consistent means of approaching truths about the world, but rather many.Old pluralism is the view that politics and decision making are located mostly in the framework of government, but that many non-governmental groups use their resources to exert influence. The central question for classical pluralism is how power and influence are distributed in a political process.