UCSP- Lesson 10 Political and Leadership structures

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  • POLITICAL STRUCTURES/INSTITUTION- organized way in which power distribute and make decision in society
  • BANDS- considered simplest political systems
  • BAND- formed of families living together based on marriage, common descendants, and friendship affiliations
  • BAND- informal leadership according to members
  • In Band decision making by consencus
  • Band ruled by village headman
  • If population increase the conflict also increase that leads to ''band fissioning'' or band splitting
  • The band survives in fissioning and social velocity becomes a tribe
  • If Band form their own group it is called Social Velocity
  • TRIBES OR TRIBU- is type of group that more complex and larger than band
  • TRIBE- organized hrough pantribal associations to form of councils, tribal leaders, elders and etc
  • Tribes are commonly headed by a village headman
  • VILLAGE HEADMAN- person who performed leadrship but has limited political power
  • Most tribes remain ''egalitarian''
  • CHIEFDOM- political organization, composed of number of communities that ruled by paramount chief that from elite family
  • Elite Family in chiefdoms like Raja Soliman and Sultan Kudarat
  • 2 forms of chiefdoms is SIMPLE CHIEFDOMS AND COMPLEX CHIEFDOMS
  • Simple Chiefdoms- characterized by central village or community ruled by single family
  • Comple Chiefdoms- composed of several chiefdoms ruled by single paramount chief
  • Nations- group of people that share common history, language, traditions, customs, habits, ethnicity
  • State- political unit of government that has sovereignty
  • If one citizens of a state belong to only one nation, such state is called ''nation-state''
  • Elements of State- PEOPLE, TERRITORY, GOVERNMENT, SOVEREIGNTY
  • Authority- is the right command and when individual has a command to make person do things
  • In authority is a person like your boss, your superiors, and those people that have a high position in society
  • Legitimacy- moral and ethical concepts that bestows one who possesses power to authority
  • For authority to be binding and stable it must called ''legitimate''
  • WEBERS 3 types of authority
    • TRADITIONAL AUTHORITY
    • CHARISMATIC AUTHORITY
    • RATIONAL-LEGAL OR BUREAUCRATIC AUTHORITY
  • TRADITIONAL AUTHORITY- legitimacy is derived from well-established customs, habits, and social structures like the rule of elite family in ''chiefdoms''
  • CHARISMATIC AUTHORITY- legitimacy emanates from charisma of individual, power legitimated with personal abilities that inspire devotion and obedience
  • EXAMPLE OF CHARISMATIC AUTHORITY
    • JESUS OF NAZARETH
    • MOHAMMED OF MECCA
    • MAHATMA GANDHI
    • MARTIN LUTHER KING JR
  • CHARISMA- personal qualities that turn the audience into followers
  • RATIONAL-LEGAL/bureaucratic authority- legitimacy from formal rules by the state through fundamental and implementing laws
  • RATIONAL-LEGAL- most dominant way authority in modern states
  • GOVERNMENT- one of the major components of social institution
  • GOVERNMENT- activities are entrusted, making and enforcing rules of society
  • 3 branches of PH government
    • LEGISLATIVE
    • EXECUTIVE
    • JUDICIAL
  • LEGISLATIVE- makes the law
  • EXECUTIVE- carries out the law
  • JUDICIAL- evaluates the law