PPG 1 W1 L1 - The Meaning of Politics and How It Can Be Studied PDF

LOOK AT THE IMAGE BELOW. WHAT CAN YOU SAY ABOUT IT?  LET'S PLAY GUESS THE WORD START DIRECTIONS: GUESS THE FOLLOWING WORDS WITHIN THE GIVEN TIME LIMIT. ARE YOU READY? EASY LEVEL What's the word that links these four pictures together? (clue: 5 letters) What's...

LOOK AT THE IMAGE BELOW. WHAT CAN YOU SAY ABOUT IT?  LET'S PLAY GUESS THE WORD START DIRECTIONS: GUESS THE FOLLOWING WORDS WITHIN THE GIVEN TIME LIMIT. ARE YOU READY? EASY LEVEL What's the word that links these four pictures together? (clue: 5 letters) What's the word that links these four pictures together? P O W E R What's the word that links these four pictures together? (clue: 7 letters) What's the word that links these four pictures together? E N F O R C E What's the word that links these four pictures together? (clue: 8 letters)  What's the word that links these four pictures together? P O L I T I C S AVERAGE LEVEL  What's the word that links these four pictures together? What's the word that links these four together? E E (clue: 12 letters)  What's the word that links these four P pictures together? P U B L I C A F F A I R S What's the word that links these four pictures together? What's the word that links these four together? (clue: 14 letters)  What's the word that links these four pictures together? S O C I A L A C T I V I T Y DIFFICULT LEVEL  What's the word that links these four pictures together? R A T F O E H T T O V E G M E R N  A R T O F T H E G O V E R M E N T  What's the word that links these four pictures together? M O C P R O M I S E D A N O C N E N S U C S  C O M P R O M I S E A N D C O N S E N C U S  ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: 1. WHAT IS IN THE VIDEO? 2. HOW DIFFERENT IS PHILIPPINES BEFORE AND NOW? 3. DIFFERENTIATE THE POLITICS BEFORE AND AFTER IN THIS COUNTRY. WHAT IS POLITICS? Politics is the activity through which people make, preserve and amend the general rules under which they live. (Heywood 2007) Activity or process through which groups reach and enforce binding decisions. (Hague & Harrop 2013) Activity by which different interests are conciliated by giving them a share in power in proportion to their importance to the welfare and the survival of the whole community. (Crick 2005) WHAT IS POLITICS? Set of activities that organizes individuals, systematically resolves disputes, and maintains order in society through creation and enforcement of rules and government policy. (Barrington et al. 2010) Activity through which human beings attempt to improve their lives and create the Good Society. (Aristotle in Heywood 2007)  STUDYING POLITICS - THE DIFFERENT VIEWS ABOUT POLITICS ACCORDING TO HEYWOOD (2007): A. Politics as the D. Politics as art of C. Politics as power government B. Politics as compromise and public affairs consensus  A. Politics as the art of government Politics is viewed as an art or practical application of knowledge for attaining a particular objective. Considered as the classical definition of politics: the art of government or exercise of control in society through making and enforcement of collective or group decisions.  The word politics is derived from the ancient Greek word polis, meaning city-state. Politics can be studied referring to the affairs or concerns of the state. If you are studying politics, you are studying the government. Two aspects are under this setting: Government personnel and government machinery or the different government departments, offices, or agencies. Politics happens in cabinet official meetings, legislative chambers, and government departments.  To study politics is to study the exercise of authority defined as legitimate power. Legitimate means it is acceptable for the people. Politics is engaged in by a limited and specific group, notably politicians, civil servants and lobbyists.  B. Politics as public affairs This second view looks at politics as what happens in the public sphere of life. It is important that you remember the distinction between ‘the political’ and ‘the nonpolitical’. To clarify, the distinction between public and private conforms to the division between the state and civil society. The institutions of the state (the government offices, departments and agencies) can be regarded as ‘public’ because they are responsible for the collective organization of community life. Moreover, they are funded at the public’s expense through taxation. In contrast, civil society consists of institutions such as private businesses, trade unions, clubs, community groups and so on that are ‘private’ in the sense that they are set up and funded by individual citizens to satisfy their own interests, rather than those of the larger society.  C. Politics as compromise and consensus The third view about politics focuses on the way how decisions are made. Politics is seen as a particular means of resolving conflict: that is, by compromise, conciliation and negotiation, rather than through the use of force and naked power. Describing a solution to a problem as a ‘political’ solution implies peaceful debate and arbitration, as opposed to what is often called a ‘military’ solution.  D. Politics as power The fourth view sees politics as something that is present in all social activities, at every level of social interaction; it can be found within our families and amongst our small groups of friends just as much as amongst nations and on the international or global stage. What makes a specific social activity or behavior political is the presence of power THANK YOU!