[POLS 1150] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (104 pages long)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1150
• Professor: Mark Yanisziewski

Document Summary

Office hours: mackinnon 518, mon/wed/fri 15:30 16:20 yaniszew@uoguelph. ca. James john guy, people, politics, and government: a canadian perspective, 7th ed. (toronto: pearson. Greek word taken by french and adapted by the english. First used by aristotle man is a political animal, aka man must live in an organized/ community, in which decisions were made for the people/community. Politics are a natural part of our lives. Carl marx + friedrich engels defined politics, specific to political power: merely the organized power of one class for oppressing another. They associated it with power & oppression and gave it a negative connotation. Otto von bismarck (cid:894)(cid:862)iron chancellor(cid:863)(cid:895) politics is the art of the possible. The process in which we take the demands and desires of the people and match it with what we have available. Gore vidal poli many, tics blood sucking insects. Defined it as a negative connotation in society.