Saint Cloud State University.

1. Soc 195
Professor Cox
Boniface Doegar

2. What does it mean to live in a democracy?
 A democracy is a form of government in which control of the
government rest with the citizens "Of the people, for the
people." To live in a democracy is to have the right to
participate in the governance of your country, be it directly
through elected position or indirectly by voting for the
candidate of your choice.

3. What is your role of a citizen?
 Democracy works when citizens participate, if they do
not or are disenfranchise or not allowed to participate,
the government ceases to be a democracy and is
instead ruled by the few willing and able to
participate. Therefore, to live in a democracy is to
take self-responsibility and participate in the
governance process.

4. Topics
 patriotic
 Economics
 Social Justice
 Race and Society
 Democracy

5. Patriotic
 Being Patriotic is to show support for your country. It
could be wearing a shirt with the American flag on it
or hanging an American flag from your front porch.
 To me, to be patriotic, means to know your country's
history and never intend to repeat it.
 To do your duty and vote in the election.
 Help one another out, get involved in change for the
better.

6. Patriotic
 We can not celebrate patriotism out of control.
 Some people might go out of control by doing heavy
drinking and partying a lot, all that is unnecessary.

7. Economics
 Economics is the study of the production and
consumption of goods and the transfer of wealth to
produce and obtain those goods.
 Economics explains how people interact within
markets to get what they want or accomplish certain
goals.
 All functional members of society are responsible for
upholding our collective agreement (laws).

8. Economics
 The implication is that not only will we follow our
rules and laws, we will not have others breaking the
rules.
 All citizens need to obey the rules set by the
government to protect each other.

9. Social Justice
 Society is our collective way of having our individual
needs met.
 One of our individual needs that society provides for is
the safety of all its members.
 Ideally, societal rules are set and agreed to by all
members of society, or as is in our case in the Unites
States, through elected representatives.

10. Social Justice
 Through these systems, society strives for just
outcomes.
 Human systems, much like humans, are not perfect,
and so we are continually questioning the rules and
systems we make to create a more just world.
 Citizens should give back in ways to that will benefits
our children

11. Race and Society
 Race and ethnicity in some ways go together. An
ethnic group is a group that has a distinct culture of its
own. It tends to be a group that shares an ancestral
heritage.
 Society is a community of people living in a particular
region and having shared customs, laws, and
organizations.
 Citizens have moral responsibility to follow a just law
and conversely we have a moral responsibility to
disobey unjust laws.

12. Race and Society
 Citizens have to work together instead of having
favoritism for one ethnic group.
 Malala Yousutzai stood up for what she believe in, and
she lost her life in the outcome

13. Race and Society Example
 During the semester, I read about a 14 years old girl,
Malala Yousutzai in Pakistan. Malala has received
worldwide recognition for standing up publicly, and in
opposition to a Taliban decree, for the education of
girls in Pakistan. She attends a school for girls run by
her father. Forbidding girls access to equal education is
unjust, and Malala's actions are therefore just. Today,
Malala was shot in the head by a Taliban warrior who
boarded her school bus and demanded to know which
child she was.

14. Democracy
 In order for a democracy to work, it is important that
the people have knowledge about the definition of
democracy and how it works. Thus it is highly
important for a country to have a relevant educated
population in order for the democratic system to work

15. Democracy
 Citizen need to have a good education because
uneducated people tend to lean towards radical
ideologies as these ideologies might seem to have a
sufficient solution to the problems of the society,
however what people usually fail to see or even ignore
is that these solution are based on suppression of other
groups in society which usually doesn't affect the
majority
1. -Welzel, Christian, and Ronald Inglehart. "The Role
of Ordinary People in Democratization." Journal of
Democracy 126-140 19.2008 (2008): 1-15. Print.