lesson 7: political and leadership structures
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- activities through which people make, preserve, and amend the general rules under which they live. Involves the dynamics of conflict resolution and cooperation, as well as the exercise of power.
- ability to do something to achieve a desired outcome. Involves a relationship - there is one who exercises power and another who is subject to it.
- legitimate power, where in the person who has this has the right to exercise power.
- Functions to manage public affairs, maintain social order, and resolve conflict. Involves issues like allocation of political roles, levels of political integration, concentrations of power and authority, mechanisms of social control and resolving conflicts.
- what type of formal norms is citizen rights (ex: rigt to freedom of speech)?
- what type of formal norms are crimes, taxation, business regulation (ex: speeding law)?
- what type of formal norms are judge-made laws (ex: property laws)?
- Usually a very small, oftentimes nomadic group that is connected by family ties and is politically independent. Usually referred to as being egalitarian societies, societies in which all persons of the same age and gender are seen as equals.
- group of people, often related through blood ties, who share common culture, language, and territory, and exhibit a certain degree of social, economic, and political organization.
- Igorots and Lumads of the Philippines, Maasai of East Africa, Huli of Papua New Guinea belong in which type of political organization?
- political units with centralized leadership headed by a chief/council of chiefs. This leadership holds significant power over a community or tribe, often extending to administrative, judicial, and religious spheres.
- Maranao sultanate and T’boli of Mindanao, Maori of New Zealand, and Akan People of Ghana and Ivory Coast are an example of what political organization?
- refers to a large group of people who share a sense of collective identity. This often arises from a combination of factors like: shared history, culture, language, ethnicity or ancestry, territory.
- political unit that encompasses several communities, has a bureaucracy, and has leaders that possess legitimate powers.
- originated from the Latin word legitimare, meaning "to declare lawful," and is broadly defined as rightfulness. It confers on an order or command an authoritative or binding character, thus transforming power into authority.
- Who studied the transformation of societies and observed that the bases of legitimacy of rule vary in different types of societies.
- authority is based on a system that is believed to have "always existed". The legitimacy of this type of authority is based on long-established customs and traditions that do not need to be justified. Examples are those exercised by elders in a tribe or an indigenous people’s group and monarchs who have inherited their power and authority.
- is based on the presumed special and extraordinary characteristics or qualities possessed by a certain individual
- Cuban leaders Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Tse Tung, US President John F. Kennedy, UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay are example of what leaders?
- most typical type of authority in modern societies. Power and authority in a rational-legal context are legitimized by a clearly defined set of written rules and laws.
- form of legitimate government that is based n marxism
- form of legitimate government that is about how law is supreme over private will
- form of legitimate government about elected government that is legally accountable to people
- form of legitimate government that is headed by a dictator
- form of legitimate government that is ruled by a monarch