| TABLE OF CONTENTS | |||
| Mad Max Home | Part One: Bartertown | Part Two: Crack-in-the-Earth | Part Three: Conclusion |
| Rationale | Bartertown: Questions | Crack: Questions | Assessment |
| Instructional Objectives | Bartertown: Plot | Crack: Plot | Conclusion: Plot |
| Materials and Equipment | Bartertown: Notes | Crack: Notes | Sample Essays |
| Instructional Procedures | Mad Max Links | Return to APCG Unit III | Return to APCG Home |
MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME WORKSHEET, PART II
BARTERTOWN QUESTION SHEET
Part I. Evaluate Bartertown (BT):
Is Bartertown a Community as defined by Easton?
What appear to be the primary goals of the Citizens of Bartertown?
What are the apparent Political Propensities of the Citizens of Bartertown?
What is the general Regime or Collective Value System which would approximate these goals
and expectations?
What is the Social Contract or dominant Ideology of this Community?
What institutions or individuals perform the System Functions of Bartertown: Articulation?
Recruitment? Socialization?
What is the Gate? What defines the Gate? What institutions or individuals are part of the
Gate?
Do the Citizens of Bartertown Participate in the decision-making process? How?
What institutions or individuals perform the Process Functions of Bartertown: Aggregation?
Policy-making? Adjudication?
What is the State? What defines the State? What institutions or individuals are part of
the State?
What institutions or individuals perform the Policy Functions of Bartertown: Regulation?
Extraction? Distribution?
What is the Bureaucracy? What defines the Bureaucracy? What institutions or individuals
are part of the Bureaucracy?
Do the Citizens obtain Feedback from the State? In what way?
Does the Structural /Functional analysis you have done support your original
identification of Bartertown’s dominant ideology? Why or why not?
In your opinion, is this an effective political system? Is it eufunctional or
dysfunctional: can it Adapt? Achieve? Maintain?
Diagram Bartertown using the Easton paradigm.