POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: David Easton, Cui Bono, Harold Lasswell
26 Oct 2017
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Monadic definitions of politics view through individual lenses. The activities concerned with power, influence, and authority. About pursuing the ideas of achieving the ideal, right, and just. About the relationship between wants and needs. The authoritative allocation of values for a society. (- david easton) The establishment to avoid chaos and create order. The driving force of everything, and how/why everything functions. The reason hate is prominent and pleasure is derived from humiliation. Why some of us live in luxury, and so many of us do not. The way in which socieities deal with long term consequences of the disruptive and corruptive acts that led to their founding (ie: imperialists, first nations vs settlers, etc. ) The situations that cannot get resolved or compensated for but cannot be forgotten or ignored. As a follow up, how those that were disrupted cope with the consequences of having been governed or disrupted by others (ie: decolonization)
