week 5 (Heo so hee)

Summary

This week I studied politics. Politics is the process which people make decisions together. I was able to learn about power, violence, and authority. Power is to influence the lives of others and the distribution of labor, wealth, and resources. Authorities have different powers such as the legality and legitimacy.  Max Weber classified three types of authorities which are Rational-legal authority, Traditional authority, and Charismatic authority.

Also I was able to learn about 6 types of government. Monarchy is a form of concentration of all the power and strength to one of the highest places.  democracy is given sovereignty to the people and have adopted forms of government in many country. Totalitarianism is regulated and controlled a lot of things such as economy and criticism. The oligarchy's power were concentrated to a small number of elite and the forces are inherited. And there are Communist State, Theocracy.

American parties are divided with democratic party and republican party. Sweden has a number of political parties and can make multi-party system.

And I was able to learn the inequality of age, race, class, gender in politics.

It was a beneficial time to learn different types and forms of politics. In particular, I was interesting to learn about the part of political inequality.