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Faculty : International Relations & Diplomatic Studies

Course Title :Political Concepts and Terminologies (2)

Semester : 2

Phone Number : 0912870536

Course Title:

Political Concepts and

Terminologies (2)

Course Objective :

Awareness of the culture ,social and politics dynamics .

Understanding the role that law and legal institutions

play in our live ,culture and Political systems .

Understanding the process of political engagement and

participation and political behavior in general.

To become skilled at political science and international

relation concepts and terminologies.

Concept of

Culture, Society,

and Politics

Lecture content :

Culture.

Society.

Politics .

Politics and society .

What is culture :

It is defined as the custom beliefs , social

Forms , and traits that defines a specific

racial , religious or social group .

Culture can be :Material Culture – it is type of culture that are

created by human person or is tangible. Examples

are food , clothing and technology .

Non-material culture – it is a type of culture that are

being learned or observed by human . Examples are

religions , Folk , behavior and customs.

Come from the Latin word “socius” which means

comrade , companion or friend.

pertains to group of individuals involved in social

interaction or sharing the same geographical or social

territory.

society

Politics :

The word politics come from ancient Greece . Its

root of the word polis ,which began to be used

about 2800 years ago to donate a self –

governing city (city – state ).

POLIS – city-state

POLITES – citizen

POLITIKE – Politics as the art of citizenship

and government

POLITIA –constitution ,rules of politics

POLITEUMA – political community ,all those

residents who have full political rights .

Politics

and

Society

Four categories of residents of the ancient Greek polis :

1. Citizens with full legal and political rights.

Adult free men born legitimately of citizen parents . They had

the right to vote , be elected in to office, bear arms, and the

obligation to serve when at war.

2. Citizens with legal rights but no political rights.

Woman and underage children, whose political rights and

interests were represented by the adult male relatives.

3. Foreigners (citizens of other city states)

Full legal rights, but no political right. Could not vote, could not

be elected to office, could not bear arms and could not serve

in war. Subject to taxation.

4.Slave

Property of their owner, any privileges depend on owner's will.

Political system is the institution that meets the

society„s needs for protection from external

enemies , resolutions if group differences , and

definition an internal order , pursuit of social goal.

Political system of a country should be design to

give people strong voice to determine what their

government should do .

References :• Brincker, Benedikte(2013) Introduction to

political Sociology ,Hans Reitzel.

• Dobratz , Betty ,Lisa Waldner and Timothy

Buzzell (2011) Power ,politics and society :An

Introduction to political sociology , Person

Education .

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