Week 8-1 Introduction to Sociology_Politics

Introduction to Politics



1. Summarize 

 Politics means the process of making socio-economic decisions. In politics, 'power' has enormous power. Power is used interchangeably with authority, and its inherent meaning is different. In politics, power can distribute and manage labor and resources. It is also said that it has "power" mainly because it cannot resist the distributed results. Political groups are called governments, and there are many different kinds of governments. Our country is a government in the form of democracy, and the right to exercise sovereignty is not exercised by someone with power, but by the majority of the people. A monarchy is based on a monarchy, and it is a political way of operating in other countries, such as Britain and Thailand. It operates on the basis of the country's representatives, but it does not exercise political power indefinitely. There are different groups of people who express their opinions within different forms of government. It is called a political party and the way in which it is formed is also different from country to country.


2. Interesting

In the political and age sections, I saw a graph that the elderly were much more likely to vote than the young. It explains that senior citizens have a high turnout for maintaining more benefits and systematic composition because of problems such as the U.S. Medicaid and Social Security Administration. The bottom line was that the elderly had relatively more power than the young, which was quite surprising. These days, we are lowering the age at which we can have the right to vote worldwide, and facing these results, I thought it was a contradiction. However, this graph related to the right to vote was based on the 2012 data, so I think it has changed a lot from the past conclusions.


3. Discussion 

Since our country has a democratic form, but there are still many countries that follow the monarchy, so what type of government do you prefer?

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