The Social Science Jargon Buster

Zina O&#39;Leary

doi:10.4135/9780857020147

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- Are you confused by academic jargon? - Do you know your `discourse' from your `dialectic'? - Can you tell the difference between `anomie' and `alienation'? The Social Science Jargon Buster tackles the most confusing concepts in the social sciences, brea

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Communism

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Zina O'Leary
In:The Social Science Jargon Buster
Chapter DOI:https://doi.org/10.4135/9780857020147
Subject:Anthropology, Business and Management, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Communication and Media Studies, Counseling and Psychotherapy, Economics, Education, Geography, Health, Marketing, Nursing, Political Science and International Relations, Psychology, Social Policy and Public Policy, Social Work, Sociology
Keywords:capitalism; communism

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Communism

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A form of society in which the means of production and sustenance, that is land, resources, and financial capital, belong to the community.

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Communism can be described as a community-based economic system of cooperative ownership and control. But is communism a utopian path or a ...

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