This document discusses different types of political organizations including bands, tribes, chiefdoms, and states. Bands were small nomadic groups of people while tribes were self-sufficient groups dependent on their land. Chiefdoms had a hierarchical structure based on kinship with formal leadership held by senior family members. States had centralized government controlling taxes, conscription, and laws over many communities within their territory. Political authority can be traditional, charismatic, or rational and governments gain legitimacy through democratic processes, meeting people's needs, or following established legal frameworks like constitutions.

1. MODULE 2:
CULTURAL, SOCIAL
AND POLITICAL
INSTITUTIONS
LESSON 2: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS

2. POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS
- Is an entity that is involved in the political process includes political
institutions, political parties and political groups.
FOUR TYPES OF POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS:
A. BANDS
B. TRIBES
C. CHIEFDOMS
D. STATES

4. BANDS
- Are societies that were composed of fairly small and nomadic groups of
people

5. TRIBAL ORGANIZATION
Are distinct people dependent on their land for their livelihood who are largely
self- sufficient and not integrated into the national society.

6. CHIEFDOM ORGANIZATION
- Is a form of hierarchical political organization in nonindustrial societies
usually based on kinship and in which formal leadership is monopolized by the
legitimate senior members of select families or houses.

7. STATE ORGANIZATION
Is the autonomous political unit encompassing many communities within its territory
and having a centralized government with the power to collect taxes, draft men to
work or war and decree and enforce laws.
There are a lot of political theories of state function:
1. Anarchy
2. Classless society
3. pluralism

8. AUTHORITY AND LEGITIMACY
Authority- is a person or organization having power or control in a particular
typically political or administrative sphere.

9. 3 types of legitimate rule:
a. Traditional authority
b. Charismatic authority
c. Rational authority
FORMS OF LEGITIMIZING GOVERNMENT:
1. Output legitimacy
2. Input legitimacy
3. Who analyzes legitimacy

10. Examples on how legitimate governments are received or accepted by its
people:
1. Democracy
2. Communism
3. Constitutionalism
4. Monarchy