SOCY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Charismatic Authority, Traditional Authority, Bush Family
16 Apr 2019
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A society does not exists in a vacuum. someone or some groups makes important decisions about how to use resources and how to allocate goods- tribal, parliament, dictator. A cultural universal common to all societies i the exercise of authority and power. The struggle for authority and power involved politics who gets what, when and how . Government: the formal organized agency that exercises power and control in modern society: vested with the power and authority to make laws and enforce them. The polity : is the social institution that distributes power, sets a society"s goals and makes decisions. Power: ability to exercise one"s will over others lies at the heart of a political system. 3 basic sources of power in political systems: 1. Force: actual or threatened use of coercion to impose one"s political decision: 2. Influence: exercise of power through process of persuasions: 3.
