POLITICAL SCIENCE

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What is Political What is Can Political
Science as a discipline ? Science be
discipline?. legitimately
called a science?
• A DISCIPLINE IS “A SUBJECT
THAT IS TAUGHT:, A FIELD OF
STUDY; TRAINING THAT
CORRECTS, MOLDS OR
PERFECTS THE MENTAL
FACULTIES OR MORAL
CHARACTER”
• SCIENCE IN ABROAD SENSE, IS
THE SYSTEMATIC ENQUIRY
BUILDING TOWARD AN EVER
MORE HIGHLY DIFFERENTIATED
SET OF ORDERED PROPOSITIONS
ABOUT EMPIRICAL WORLD”
• POLITICAL SCIENCE CAN THEN
BE DEFINED AS THE “SCIENCE OF
THE FORM AND PRINCIPLES OF
CIVIL GOVERNMENT AND THE
EXTENT MANNER OF IT’S
INTERVENTION IN PUBLIC AND
PRIVATE AFFAIRS”
• POLITICS IS DEFINED BY
WEBSTER AS 1) THE SCIENCE OF
CIVIL GOVERNMENT AND 2)
POLITICAL AFFAIRS IN A PARTY
SENSE.
• POLITICS AS THE CONSTRAINED
USE OF SOCIAL POWER AND THE
STUDY OF POLITICS IS THE
STUDY OF THE NATURE AND
SOURCE OF THOSE CONSTRAINTS
AND THE TECHNIQUES FOR THE
USE OF SOCIAL POWER WITHIN
THOSE CONSTRAINT.
• SOCIAL POWER IS THE POWER
OF PEOPLE OVER OTHER PEOPLE
FOUR KINDS OF POLITICAL
ORGANIZATIONS THAT EXISTED IN THE
DEVELOPMENT OF MAN:
• BAND- GROUP OF FAMILIES GROUP
TOGETHER TO BETTER SURVIVE.
• LATER THE FAMILIES FORM A TRIBE
• TRIBE DEVELOPED INTO CHIEFDOM
• THE MODERN POLITICAL ORGANIZATION
CALLED THE STATE.