POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Deductive Reasoning, Inductive Reasoning, Robert A. Dahl
20 Jun 2016
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What separates humans from animals is we can make decisions on how to live together. Aristotle didn"t include women in his beliefs, they were a role solely in the household and weren"t a part of politics. Emphasis on institutions: the state, the government, political parties, interest groups. Emphasis on power in its various forms: control, influence, authority, coercion (robert. Emphasis on distribution of resources or of values: who gets what, when, and how or. Emphasis on conflicts and differences: what different members of society differed about and the reason behind voting systems. Emphasis on process of conciliation: groups get the influence equivalent to their importance. What we hold in common concern of a group, community, region, nation, humanity, planetary. Recognizes the likelihood of different opinions and interests. Politics is socially constructed and it is constantly changing, even in stable societies. The subject of change through actions, processes, development of structures and systems are constant in the political world.
