UCSP- Lesson 10 Political and Leadership structures

• 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