politics

(noun)

the art or science of influencing people on a civic, or individual level, when there are more than 2 people involved

Related Terms

  • social policy
  • state

Examples of politics in the following topics:

  • Political Opportunity Theory

    • Describe how and why political opportunities are important to social movements according to political opportunity theory.
  • Politics

    • The higher one's social class, the higher their levels of political participation and political influence.
    • Educational attainment, an indicator of social class, can predict political participation.
    • Social class impacts one's level of political participation and political influence.
    • Political influence refers to the extent to which one's political participation achieves its desired results.
    • This trend means that middle and upper class individuals have greater political participation and greater political influence than those in lower positions.
  • What is Politics?

    • Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions.
    • The term is generally applied to behaviour within civil governments, but politics has been observed in all human group interactions, including corporate, academic, and religious institutions.
    • It consists of social relations involving authority or power, the regulation of political units, and the methods and tactics used to formulate and apply social policy.
  • Politics

    • Even groups we don't think of as political still practice politics.
    • For example, a school sports team has its own politics.
    • This is politics.
    • How public personalities, social movements, and trends outside of the formal institutions of political power affect formal politics
    • Political sociology was traditionally concerned with how social trends, dynamics, and structures of domination affect formal political processes.
  • External Sources of Social Change

    • Political Process Theory, sometimes also known as the Political Opportunity Theory,is an approach to social movements heavily influenced by political sociology.
    • It argues that the success or failure of social movements is primarily affected by political opportunities.
    • Political Process Theory argues that there are three vital components for movement formation: insurgent consciousness, organizational strength, and political opportunities.
    • Finally, "political opportunity" refers to the receptivity or vulnerability of the existing political system to challenge.
    • One of the advantages of the political process theory is that it addresses the issue of timing or emergence of social movements.
  • Political Parties and Elections

    • Political parties seek to influence government policy by nominating select candidates to hold seats in political offices.
    • Typically, a political party is a political organization seeking to influence government policy by nominating its own select candidates to hold seats in political office, via the process of electoral campaigning.
    • The type of electoral system is a major factor in determining the type of party political system.
    • In a nonpartisan system, no official political parties exist, sometimes due to legal restrictions on political parties.
    • Political parties, still called factions by some, are lobbied vigorously by organizations, businesses and special interest groups such as trades unions.
  • The U.S. Political System

    • Although nothing in U.S. law requires it, in practice, the political system is dominated by political parties.
    • Therefore, much of U.S. politics boils down to party politics.
    • The United States is also a diverse society, and citizens' competing interests are reflected in politics.
    • Individual citizens are not the only players in U.S. politics.
    • The media also play an important role in politics by influencing public sentiment and acting as an information filter.
  • Preindustrial Cities

    • Preindustrial cities had important political and economic functions and evolved to become well-defined political units.
    • London is an example of a city that was well established in the preindustrial era as a political and economic center.
    • During the European Middle Ages, a town was as much a political entity as a collection of houses.
    • However, particular political forms varied.
    • Examine the growth of preindustrial cities as political units, as well as how trade routes allowed certain cities to expand and grow
  • Gender Inequality in Politics

    • Women have had to fight for equal treatment in politics in the United States by winning the right to vote and a seat at the political table.
    • Examples of powerful female political figures are in evidence throughout the world.
    • Women in politics took center stage in the 2008 election.
    • For this reason, political strategists see the "female vote" as one to be won.
    • Infer, from the historical struggle for womens' equal treatment in politics, why gender stereotypes and barriers to equal political participation still exist in the United States
  • Ideology

    • Ideologies are systems of abstract thought applied to public matters and thus make this concept central to politics.
    • The economic base of production determines the political superstructure of a society.
    • Many political parties base their political action and program on an ideology.
    • A political ideology is a certain ethical set of ideals, principles, doctrines, myths, or symbols of a social movement, institution, class, or large group that explains how society should work and offers some political and cultural blueprint for a certain social order.
    • A political ideology largely concerns itself with how to allocate power and to what ends it should be used.
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