1.
Summary
This article introduces 'Politics'. Politics is the process
by which groups of people make social economic decisions.
Max Weber said, Power is the likelihood that any
person or group will be able to carry out his or her own doctrine despite the
resistance of others. Authority is a legitimate power. Authority doesn’t need violence. There are 3 sources of authority: traditional,
rational-legal, and charisma. Violence is one kind of authority gives it the
right to use power to force citizens to do what the government deems
appropriate.
There are many forms of government. Monarchy is
governed supreme power individual who is head of state. Democracy is governed
by citizens. But there is a danger of ‘Ochlocracy’. Communist state is governed by single-party rule of a Communist
party. It started from Marx's ideas. There are other forms like
totalitarianism, oligarchy, theocracy.
As information technology develops, political
ideology has changing. Especially, social network is ‘Eye of the typhoon’. Watch individual,
social networks seem weak, but they have stronger political power than any
media.
2.
What was interesting
Although I am a student of sociology, I didn’t interest about politics issues. In fact, the word ‘Politics’ is hard to understand for me.
However, when I read this article, I became able to understand politics to a
certain extent. But the “make social economic
decisions” is still
difficult to understand. I I hope the professor will give me further
explanation of this word.
3. Discussion Point
This time, I thought Korea is only country which has young people
less vote. But this article said, “Generally,
Young people are much less likely to vote than are older people.” Therefore, I looked for more of this phenomenon, and found
some interesting article.
This article said, “Schools and
societies do not teach politics and suffrage.” I went a
step further and tried to think more intensely. In Bourdieu, he said
educational institutions (like schools) are being used as instruments to
reproduce class inequalities. I think Powers(rulers) do not give political
education because they watch out for younger generations with the power to
change the world. How about other opinion? Why young people don’t vote.
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