politics

• Refers to activities through which people make, preserve, and amend the general rules under which they live. It involves the dynamics of conflict resolution and cooperation, as well as the exercise of power.

  politics
• A person who has authority has the right to exercise power.

  authority
• Is the systematic study of the state and government.

  POLITICAL SCIENCE
• meaning a city or what today would be the equivalent of a sovereign state.

  polis
• knowledge

  scientia
• Is any entity that is involved in the political process. is the existence of groups for the purposes of controlling people’s behavior and maintaining social order or the distribution of power within a group.

  political organization
• TYPES OF POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS

  bands and tribes, chiefdoms, nations and states
• It is a combination of smaller kin or non-kin groups, linked by a common culture, that usually act as one.

  tribes
• Usually bigger than bands and are primarily food producers.

  tribes
• Social order is maintained through a kinship and family system led by a community head

  tribes
• A political unit headed by a chief, who holds power over more than one community group.

  chiefdom
• Already have a form of social and political structure characterized by a community leader.

  chiefdom
• Power is inherited (By blood or by achievements)

  chiefdom
• A political unit consisting of a government that has sovereignty presiding over a group of people and a well-defined territory

  state
• highest form of political organization

  state
• sovereign because it has the capacity to maintain order within its boundaries

  state
• sovereign because other states recognize it as an independent state

  state
• People who comprise a state are called

  citizens
• Groups of people that share a common history, language, traditions, customs, habits, and ethnicity

  nation
• nations exist as a state of mind, you can be physically apart from the country by still considering yourself part of the nation (ex, OFW's)

  Benedict anderson
• have no political sovereignty

  nations
• political concept

  state
• ethnic concept

  nation
• Legitimacy and Types of Authority 


  Traditional Authority Charismatic Authority Legal-Rational Authority
• People follow authority because of its legitimacy.

  Legitimacy and Authority
• is a moral or ethical concept that gives whoever possesses power may demand obedience from citizens

  Legitimacy
• Is based on a system in which authority is legitimate because it has always existed. (ex. Monarchies, Chiefdoms,religion etc.)

  traditional authority
• Authority is from the charisma of the individual or the leader, who show that he possesses the right to lead by virtue of magical powers, prophecies, heroism and etc. Some see this charisma as the right for that individual to rule (ex. Religious icons, Celebrities, etc.)

  charismatic authority
• This is found in more industrialized, modern societies where power rests upon a particular office and not upon a specific person. Based on a system of rules that is applied administratively and judicially in accordance with known principles. Authority and power are exercised based on laws. As such, the law and the judiciary are seen as the highest forms of power in society.

  legal-rational authority