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ASSIGNMENT
Summer 2015
Bachelor of Journalism and Mass Communication– Semester 5
BJ0021 – Media and Political System - 4 credits
(60 marks)
Please note that all questions carry 10 Marks each. 10 Mark questions should be answered in
approximately 400 words.
Answer the following questions:
Q. 1- Trace the originof Political science.Discusshow politicsis differentfrompolitical science. [10
Marks]
Answer:Political science as a separate field is a rather late arrival in terms of social sciences.
However, the term "political science" was not always distinguished from political philosophy, and
the modern discipline has a clear set of antecedents including also moral philosophy, political
economy,political theology,history, and other fields concerned with normative determinations of
what ought to be and with deducing the characteristics and functions of the ideal state.
Modernwritersmake a distinctionbetween“politics“and“political Science”SirFredericPollock, for
the first time, breaks up the subject into two parts, viz (
Q. 2- Is the study of political science important? How? Validate your argument with references to
the utility of political science and the scope of political science. [10 Marks]
Answer:Politicalscience isasocial science disciplinethatdealswithsystems of government and the
analysisof political activityandpolitical behavior. Itdealsextensivelywiththe theoryandpractice of
politicswhichiscommonlythoughtof asthe determiningof the distributionof powerandresources.
Political scientists"see themselvesengagedinrevealingthe relationshipsunderlyingpolitical events
and conditions, and from these revelations they attempt to construct general principles about the
way the world of politics works."
Political science draws upon the fields of economics, law, sociology, history, anthropology, public
administration, public policy, national politics, international relations, comparative politics,

2. psychology,political organization,andpolitical theory.Although it was codified in the 19th century,
when all the social sciences were established, the stud
Q. 3- What is the state? Describe the elements of state and the difference between state and
society. [10 Marks]
Answer:A state is an entity that occupies a definite geographic area, has a certain culture, people,
language historyand the like. The term state is used to distinguish a certain territory from another
one basedon these factors.Itis an independentandsovereignentitythatcan be distinguished from
the other states and has certain administrative tasks to be carried out for its proper functioning.
These administrative tasks are carried out by the government. This entity has the right to exercise
power over the territory and the people. State is the territory in
Q. 4- Differentiate between the concepts of anarchism, totalitarianism, and pluralism. [10 Marks]
Answer:The anarchism which developed among such men was compatible with the exercise of
authority and coercion, processes without which no large-scale social reconstruction could be
effected.Thisshouldoccasionnosurprise,since the example of the primitive anarchies shows that
authority and coercion are not to be identified exclusively with the State. What the Spanish
anarchists aimed at was the abolition of the State and certain forms of activity upheld by State
power(lawyer,moneylender, landlord, for example), which entailed driving out, and keeping out,
representatives of the State, and instituting new social
Q. 5- Write a long note on Gandhism and Marxism. [10 Marks]
Answer:The poverty problem in both the systems lies in lo-caring the poor vis-a-vis the privileged
seats of power and wealth, and in an ongoing struggle for power to the poor. This gives a Marxo-
Gandhianideaof social change.Twosuch experiments took place after Gandhi-the Maoist civil war
inChinaof the Marxian varietyandthe J.P.Civil movementof the Gandhianvariety,bothagainstthe
coercive state. Unfortunately both the movements faded into a hunt for political power. China,
however, got an advantage of an equalised economic
Q. 6- Describe the characteristics and importance of ideologies. [10 Marks]
Answer:The word first made its appearance in French as idéologie at the time of the French
Revolution,whenit was introduced by a philosopher, A.-L.-C. Destutt de Tracy, as a short name for
whathe called his “science of ideas,” which he claimed to have adapted from the epistemology of
the philosophersJohnLocke andÉtienne Bonnot de Condillac, for whom all human knowledge was
knowledge of ideas. The fact is, however, that he owed rather more to the English philosopher
Francis Bacon, whom he revered no less than
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