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"Politics"- struggle for power [Hans J. Morgenthow]
*ubiquitous (found everywhere)
--who gets/who does not get
--International arena in which struggle goes on.
--don't want to take the law into our own hands.
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What is true in physics may not be in sociology.(ie opposites attract v. likes attract).
"Where the balloon is being pushed to... may pop out, down the road a few years. But eventually it will pop out!"
Within the individual:
Hydraulic mode of the personality.
"multiplication of force" --Pascal
Note: success is measured in materialistic posessions
Theravadan Buddhists
Struggle can continue externally to the individual
| Family | ↓ |  |
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| State | ↓ | |
| Nation | ↓ | |
| Multinational | ↓ | |
| Planetary | ↓ | |
| Interplanetary | ↓ | |
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| Star Trek | ↓ | |
| ∞ | ↓ |
Alcohol
need to draw limits (parameters) and be more specific
how much and how is it done?
Harold Laswell (1950s):
"...to decide who gets what, how much and how"
(Implied:who does not get and who pays):
govt language: government is our business...and business is good!
behavior modification
conditioning
stimulating
manipulate - regulate - control
supress
govern
you will obey
characteristic --
"politics" increases as resources become scarce
--why dont I give a damn?
--why don't I care?
--why don't I participate? (example:voting)
maybe there is an interest being served by my complacency
voter apathy
3 June 1980
99M eligible voters in Texas
7.6 M -- Democrats
4.4 M -- Republicans
3.0 M -- Other
84 M -- non-participating
obtacles to effective political participation
--psychological factors
ex. "cynicism" -- dis-illusion-ment with government
cognitive dissonance ----> ambivalence --attracted and repelled at the same time about the same thing
(to know/think) (disagreement) -- don't care one way or the other
-----> acquiescence
lack of political militants
remain quiet
(passive/submissive)
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