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What Is Politics And Why Is Power Difficult To Define?
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What Is Politics And Why Is Power Difficult To Define? To understand Politics, we need to understand three other terms, society, government and authority, as all three are what politics revolves around. Politics is society; Society is a community and everything the community involves, culture, religion and things such as social class. Society is organised by politics. Politics in a society deal with disagreements or conflicts. Within a society, there will always be different groups with different opinions, something is needed to make sure these groups, are able to co-exist, this is politics. Politics is needed to decide who in a society should hold authority over the other people in a society, the allocation of authority. Authority itself however is complicated as it has more than one area of meaning. Authority can actually be three different things within society; Max Weber a German sociologist defines these 3 meanings. Weber divided authority into...
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