UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS: NATURE, GOALS AND

PERSPECTIVES IN ANTHROPOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

2nd SEM, 2nd QUARTER

I. WRITTEN WORKS

 What’s More

Directions: Based on the previous activity, answer the following questions.

1. What are the functions of the government in relation to its people?

- A government is an institution through which leaders exercise power to make

and enforce laws. A government's basic functions are providing leadership, maintaining

order, providing public services, providing national security, providing economic security,

and providing economic assistance and all governments recognize the principle that the

public must be protected and served. The citizen, in effect, surrenders a degree of

individual sovereignty to the government in return for protection of life and property and the

delivery of essential services. Governments supervise the resolution of conflicting interests,

the workings of the political process, the enforcement of laws and rights, and the monitoring

of national income and international trade; they regulate economic and social relationships

among individuals and private organizations; and they carry out enterprises such as

production of military goods, provision of postal services, and ownership of power utilities

and public works.