UCSP PPT ENDTERM Flashcards
4 views in politics
1.politics as the art of governance
• Concerned with the dealings of the State
• Most Common
• Narrowed view
Politics as Public Affairs
Broad
• Beyond the realm of government
• Politics must not infringe on personal life
Politics as compromise and consensus
• Sees politics as tool for conflict resolution
• The art of the possible
• Conflict is inevitable but must be
conciliated
Politics as Power
• Broadest and Radical
• Practiced not only in the government but in all levels of society.
Education that works
• Scarcity ingredient
The ability to bring out the result by exerting social or moral pressure
Influence
The recognition, acceptance, and support for an existing form of rule or government as right and proper.
Legitimacy
keeps society together by virtue of custom and habit.
Traditional
leader’s personal qualities.
Charismatic
derived from formal procedures of institutions such as elections.
Rational legal
The rules of the game in a society norms more formally
Institutions
2 types of institutions:
Political institution- Organization in a government that create, enforce, and apply laws
Non state institution- government in outside of the formal support
The groups within a culture that are responsible for public decision-making
Political Organizations
Associated with the foraging groups and 20 to hundred people
Band
The formal type of political organization and peimary membership is kinship
Tribe
Permanently allied tribe
Chiefdom
certain spatially defined and bounded area,
State
4 elements of state
1.Territory- the fixed portion of the earth surface
2.People -as a whole, no limit to numbers/ population
3.Government - as a vehicle in the governance of society ex. Car’s engine
4.Sovereignty- uncontrollable power inherent by state.
3 branches of government:
Legislative- Make laws, alter, and repeal laws ex. Ung mga nagawa ng case of like mga Senate and House of Representatives
Executive - The president appoint his cabinet ex. President n vice president
Judiciary - Power to hold settle controversies involving rights that are legally demandable and enforceable,,, Determines whether or not there has been a grave abuse on the part of the government
pertains to both the Lower House and legal sovereignty
Congress
4 function of the government
Protecting the rights of the people - The Government has the responsibility to protect thee and ensure that citizens have equal opportunities to exercise their rights.
Ensuring national security - The Government is expected to protect its citizens from threats
Managing economic conditions- The Government has the responsibility to ensure that everyone has fair and equal access to resources and opportunities.
Maintaining Social Order- The Government must be able to enforce laws that will maintain social order.
Undertaking of the state or other polity are directly or indirectly decided by the “people,”
Democracy
demokratia
from demos (people) and kratos (rule)
4 religion can be classified into two namely:
Functional- concerned with social consequences
Substantive- concerned with what constitutes ex. Rituals and Gods
Conflict - the use of equal society
Sociological- it aids capitalism and should live simply
Shaped by the interaction of its human agents
Religion
Religion Is the “opium of the people
CONFLICT KARL MARX
He argued that Religion was used to maintain the unequal social system that provides more benefits to the elites or the upper- class while negatively affecting the lower social classes
Karl marx
Religion serves several functions for society.
Functional
