POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Polis, Marxism, Proto-Indo-European Language
26 Oct 2017
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T o p i c 2 : t h e c o m m u n i t y. Polis (poleis) greek: city-state polit s greek: citizens, members of the polis. Affiliating the physical area/people and the relations and affairs of the state. politeuein greek: those who engage in the affairs of the polis. Polite (in latin: polire and cives meaning polished and civilized) A community is a group of individuals who share certain commonalities have a regular pattern of interaction (reciprocity & order among each other), who identify as members of the group and do not identify as members of the others. The idea of the world being broken up by and grouped into civilizations. What makes a community political? (*this is not a question of whether they contain politics or not, more so a question of the core and purpose of the community as a whole. )
