POSC150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Order
2 Sep 2016
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Social order: the way we organize and live our collective lives: without politics we would need to use brute force to settle disputes and allocate resources, legitimate: accepted as right or proper e. i. When people don"t agree on what is legit violence (often) takes its place. Rules and institutions: rules: directives that specify how resources will be distributed or what procedures govern collective activity a. i. Rules provide framework for us to solve issues without violence b. Institutions: organizations in which governmental power is exercised b. i. In the u. s. our rules provide for the institutions of a representative democracy: both rules and institutions influence who most easily and often get their own way. Politics and economics: economics: production and distribution of a society"s material resources and services, capitalism b. i. Capitalist economy: an economic system in which the market determines production, distribution, and price decisions, and property is privately owned b. ii.
