This document discusses key concepts in political science including politics, power, government, political culture, and methods of analysis. It defines politics as the process through which power and resources are gained and lost, and government as the system for exercising authority over people. Political culture is described as the broadly shared attitudes and beliefs about the role of government in a particular group or region. The document also outlines different approaches to studying political science such as description, classification, hypothesis testing, prediction, and the use of concepts, variables, correlation and causation.