POL 128 Lecture 1: Thurs, Jan 19
2 Feb 2017
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Aristotle called politics the master science because it touches all aspects of our lives. Politics is derived from the greek word (cid:858)poli (cid:859) meaning city government. Politics can be seen as a decision making mechanism for society. Politics can be defined as a system for conflict resolution. Politics can also be the authoritative allocation of values. Does(cid:374)"t (cid:373)ea(cid:374) (cid:448)alues i(cid:374) the se(cid:374)se of (cid:373)orals, a(cid:374)d ethi(cid:272)al (cid:271)ut as things that human value such as health, wealth, status . Politics has been defined as a search for the (cid:862)just ociety(cid:863) which mean ever since the beginning of politics, people have been debating what politic, society, government, should be like. Politics is a system of institutions, a system of processes. Two principles way in which politics can be analyzed and interpreted. They would say they their approach is more realistic. It describes things the way they are. i. e. statistics canada.
