UCSP

• Politics


  Activities associated with the governance of a country or an area
• Legitimacy


  Recognition, acceptance and support for an existing form of rule or government
• Forms of legitimacy


  • Traditional
  • Charismatic
  • Rational Legal
• Traditional legitimacy


  • A kind of moral authority that keeps society together by virtue of customs and habit
  • Ex. Kings, Queens, Etc.
• Charismatic legitimacy


  • Endowed with exceptional power and superhuman qualities
  • "Charisma" separates them from ordinary people
• Rational Legal legitimacy


  • Derives from formal procedure
• Social stratification


  Which individuals and grouped are ranked in a more or less permanent hierarchy of status
• Dimensions of social stratification

  • Power
  • Prestige
  • Wealth
• Power


  Fundamental sociological concept / "to be able to" (Weber) ability to bring about outcome
• Types of power


  • Economic Power
  • Political Power
  • Cultural Power
• Economic Power


  The one who will receive importance resource and how it will be used
• Political Power


  Expectation for organization and establishment of rules
• Cultural Power


  Influencing one's perspective, ideas and beliefs
• Prestige


  Special advantage or benefit that not everyone enjoys
• Wealth


  • Associated with properties that you own or you have
  • Consumption property
  • Productive property
• Social classes


  • Elite
  • Bourgeois/e
  • Proletariats
• Systems of social stratification

  • Slavery
  • Estate System/Feudalism
  • Caste System
• Slavery


  • Most life threatening form of legalized social inequality
  • The basis of slavery is always economic
• Estate System/Feudalism


  • Requires peasant to work on the land leased to them by the nobles in exchange of military protection against the other lords
• Caste System


  • Hereditary system or rank, usually religiously dictated to be fixed and immobile
  • Brahmin (Priest, Scholars, Teachers)
  • Kshatriyas (Kings, Warriors, Political Leaders)
  • Vaisyas (Landowners, Merchants, Craftsman)
  • Sudras (Peasants, Servants, Laborers)
• Branches of government


  • Legislative
  • Executive
  • Judiciary
• Legislative branch


  Authorized to make laws, alter and repeat them
• Executive branch


  Elected by direct vote in charge of cabinet appointees
• Judiciary branch


  Presents controversy and evaluates the law
• The ARTICLE II of the 1987 constitution establishes the Separation of Powers, where the powers of the government are divided and allocated by the constitution to the executive, judicial and legislative branches
• Check and Balances are powers granted by the constitution that enable the branch of government to check some acts of the others to ensure that no branch dominates the government
• Political Dynasty


  Families that hold on to power and is transferred one generation to another
• Social Mobility


  Change, shift of an individual or group to a certain position
• Democracy


  Rule of the people, by the people, for the people
• Bureaucrat Capitalism/Corruption


  Phenomenon of making profits out of one's seat in the government