2. WE CAN DO IT!
1. Explain the concepts of politics, power,
and authority;
2. Distinguish the types of political
organizations that have existed over time;
and
3. Analyze social and political structures
4. Political and Leadership Structures
POLITICS refers to activities through which
people make, preserve, and amend the general
rules under which they live.
- it involves the dynamics of conflict resolution
and cooperation, as well as the exercise of
power.
6. Political and Leadership Structures
POWER refers to the ability to do
something in order to achieve a desired
outcome.
• It involves a relationship – there is one
who exercise power and another who
is subject to it.
8. Political and Leadership Structures
AUTHORITY is legitimate power, where
in the person who has authority has the
right to exercise power.
9. Types of Political Organizations
Bands
Tribes
Chiefdoms
States and Nations
10. Types of Political Organizations- BAND
It is usually a very small, oftentimes nomadic group that is
connected by family ties and is politically independent.
• Nomadic means moving from place to place, usually in search
of food, bands are most often made up of hunter-gatherers.
• Due to their small size and their tendency to move around,
bands usually have little to no formal leadership.
• When to move and when to stay is usually based on group
consensus rather than one governing official calling the shots.
11. Types of Political Organizations- TRIBE
• It is a combination of smaller kin or non-kin groups, linked
by a common culture, that usually act as one.
• Sort of multi-grouped and usually bigger than bands, tribes
tend to contain communities that are a bit larger.
• Similar to bands, most tribes have no formal leadership.
Instead, they, too, are egalitarian in nature.
12. Types of Political Organizations- CHIEFDOMS
• a political unit headed by a chief, who holds
power over more than one community group.
• these are usually more densely populated
and are not egalitarian but instead have
social rank, with the chief and his family
holding power.
13. Types of Political Organizations- CHIEFDOMS
• Since chiefs are usually chosen by heredity, this
usually gives his family and their inner circle the
reigns to power.
• Many chiefdoms practice redistribution, in which
goods are accumulated by one central
person or power, who then decides how to
allocate them among the people.
14. Types of Political Organizations- CHIEFDOMS
• Many chiefdoms believe their chiefs are endowed
with mana, a supernatural power that gives the
right to rule.
15. Types of Political Organizations- STATES AND
NATIONS
• A nation consists of a distinct population of people
bound together by a common culture, history, and
tradition who are typically concentrated within a
specific geographic regions.
• A state is a political unit that has sovereignty – the
legitimate and ultimate authority of the state – over an
area of territory and the people within it.
16. Post Question:
How are these political and
leadership structures affect one’s
Nation? Province? Town? Barangay?
Family?
17. CHECK UP!
1. Explain the concepts of politics, power,
and authority;
2. Distinguish the types of political
organizations that have existed over time;
and
3. Analyze social and political structures
