Backlashes Samenvattingen, Aantekeningen en Examens

This summary contains notes from all the lectures the University of Amsterdam gave for its Democracies, Autocracies and Transitions course (FY). Description given by the University of Amsterdam: In the first part of the course we discuss theories and empirical research on the emergence, stability and performance of democratic regimes, and we discuss different types of democratic systems. What are recent trends and is there a crisis of representative democracy? In what ways has the ability of ...

every chapter of the course social sciences given in 2022 is included in this summary! 1. modernity 2. French Revolution 3. conservative backlashes 4. peace and war 5. nationalism 6. industrialization 7. colonialism 8. the age of mass migration 9. culture and secularization 10. the first world war 11. the road to world war II

Case Study on Moral Status In this case study on fetal abnormalities, the very uncommon scenario presents itself where a fetus is diagnosed with a rare condition or a possibility of having down syndrome. More specifically, the rare condition is described as the inability to develop or ever grow any arms. Unpredictable and uncontrollable events like these in a Christian household are very controversial. The mother is expected to continue her duties as mother regardless of the life of the ch...

Case Study on Moral Status In this case study on fetal abnormalities, the very uncommon scenario presents itself where a fetus is diagnosed with a rare condition or a possibility of having down syndrome. More specifically, the rare condition is described as the inability to develop or ever grow any arms. Unpredictable and uncontrollable events like these in a Christian household are very controversial. The mother is expected to continue her duties as mother regardless of the life of the ch...