a) https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Sociology/Politics
This syllabus was about politics. Before the start, it defines politics as a process of making a choice which related society and economy, which can show through the groups of people. And It points that people use authority and power in the same meaning but it’s actually different. The difference between authority and power is that authority claims a right to use power. This introduces lots types of governments. Monarchy is represented as U.K, which was a common type of government in ancient and medieval times. On the other hand, Democracy is the type that we could see commonly in these days. In democracy government, the government should watch whether there is an abuse which majority might do to a minority, or not. Oligarchy is the type that existed through the history. It's known as China under Deng Xiaoping’s system. Totalitarianism government tries to control people’s life. Communist State is the system in which communist party is the one who leads. In Theocracy, they consider god as the president of the country. There are lots of types which describe government, and most of them contain parties in their political system. A political party describes as the groups who want to make the president in their party and also wants to get the political power. They show the differences that can happen in the party system, even though they both are democratic countries. In U.S, they have loosened party system compared to others. They have lots of parties, but among them, there are only two parties which can make president in their party. Sweden is a multiparty system, therefore parties in Sweden work together and make a coalition government. Sweden’s party system makes not an only major party but also minor party come to prominence. And finally, it shows that voting patterns are influenced by gender, age, race and class.
2. Interesting points
Reading through this week’s article, I was able to know the difference between power and authority. And also, I was able to know the types of government which I didn’t specifically know before this thing. I remind North Korea when I read the oligarchy and totalitarianism. And then I wondered which thing is an ideal type that could describe North Korea’s system. I already knew a bit of the Us's political system, but I was able to learn more about it. It was interesting that I could learn about Sweden’s party system. Because people usually talk about the states when we talk about the democracy.
3. Discussion point
At the above, U.K is introduced as an example of a monarchy. In a monarchy, there are royals. The Royals are highly privileged groups. People still respect for royals, even though they don’t have a power they used to have. And then, I recently saw this article.
| https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4654114/snp-members-vote-to-stop-funding-the-queen-and-spend-the-money-on-the-wider-public-good-in-scotland-instead/ |
So, what do you think? I think that kind of move is an evidence that their royals don't’ get the much respect that they used to, from the people. Will monarchy disappear, or will it stand hardly than ever?
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