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    • 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
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