Section I: Mark the following sentences with true (T) or false (F): Political science is the objective analysis of politics. The territorial component of human behavior, such as borders, ethnic areas, and regions do not have any political ramifications. Thomas Hobbes called politics "the master science." He meant that almost everything happens in a political context. Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset was among the first to demonstrate the close connection between democracy and level of wealth. Misuse of power, influence peddling, and outright corruption are not prominent features of politics. The concept of political power is connected with coercion, inequality, and occasionally of brutality.  Anthropologists concluded that all differences in human behavior were inherited.  Hobbes and Locke, argued that humans form "civil society" because it is much better than anarchy." To safeguard life and property, people form governments."  Irrational political leaders such as Hitler and Mussolini manipulated the emotions and symbols of their people.  The original meaning of science, from the French, is simply "knowledge", and the study of politics accumulates knowledge.  Political communities are formed and hold together on the basis of cultural values transmitted by parents, schools, religion, and the mass media.  Political science is an empirical discipline that accumulates both quantified and qualitative data.  Few police, as in Sweden and Norway, indicates that little coercion is needed; legitimacy is low.  Power is a sort of enabling device to carry out or implement policies and decisions  Machiavelli said it first and perhaps the best: "Man is by nature a political animal," he meant that humans live naturally in herds.  Corruption undermines legitimacy. Citizens do not respect a government where many officials are accused of corruption.  Government is the social organization that has authority to rule the state and it makes laws that affect all the people within its territory.  The Zulus of South Africa, for example, are not a tribe but an artificially created nation from many clans and tribes.  Nations are commonly have several defining characteristics, such as territory, population, independence, and government.  Nationalism is a people's heightened sense of cultural, historical, and territorial identity, unity and sometimes greatness.  Women got the right to vote in the United States only with the 19th Amendment in 1920.  The best way to solve the participation crises, as Britain succeeded in doing in 19th century, is through slow and incremental steps.  Most theorists agree that the task of government should be to provide for the lives, stability, and economic and social well-being of its citizens.  A welfare state is the number-one capitalist, owning and running major industry.  Socialism is an economic system of government ownership of industry, allegedly for good of the whole society; opposite of capitalism.  China's rapid economic growth suggests that it will become a middle-income country, but will never be ripe for democracy.  Laissez-faire, from French means total government intervention in the economy.  In Africa, people still think of themselves as members of a tribe rather than as Ugandans or Nigerians.  Statism is an economic system of government ownership of industry, allegedly for good of the whole society; opposite of capitalism.  The capitalist states of northwest Europe offer "cradle-to-grave" benefits, such as education, health care, and retirement funds.

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Section I: Mark the following sentences with true (T) or false (F):

  1. Political science is the objective analysis of politics.
  2. The territorial component of human behavior, such as borders, ethnic areas, and regions do not have any political ramifications.
  3. Thomas Hobbes called politics "the master science." He meant that almost everything happens in a political context.
  4. Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset was among the first to demonstrate the close connection between democracy and level of wealth.
  5. Misuse of power, influence peddling, and outright corruption are not prominent features of politics.
  6. The concept of political power is connected with coercion, inequality, and occasionally of brutality.
  7.  Anthropologists concluded that all differences in human behavior were inherited.
  8.  Hobbes and Locke, argued that humans form "civil society" because it is much better than anarchy." To safeguard life and property, people form governments."
  9.  Irrational political leaders such as Hitler and Mussolini manipulated the emotions and symbols of their people.
  10.  The original meaning of science, from the French, is simply "knowledge", and the study of politics accumulates knowledge.
  11.  Political communities are formed and hold together on the basis of cultural values transmitted by parents, schools, religion, and the mass media.
  12.  Political science is an empirical discipline that accumulates both quantified and qualitative data.
  13.  Few police, as in Sweden and Norway, indicates that little coercion is needed; legitimacy is low.
  14.  Power is a sort of enabling device to carry out or implement policies and decisions
  15.  Machiavelli said it first and perhaps the best: "Man is by nature a political animal," he meant that humans live naturally in herds.
  16.  Corruption undermines legitimacy. Citizens do not respect a government where many officials are accused of corruption.
  17.  Government is the social organization that has authority to rule the state and it makes laws that affect all the people within its territory.
  18.  The Zulus of South Africa, for example, are not a tribe but an artificially created nation from many clans and tribes.
  19.  Nations are commonly have several defining characteristics, such as territory, population, independence, and government.
  20.  Nationalism is a people's heightened sense of cultural, historical, and territorial identity, unity and sometimes greatness.
  21.  Women got the right to vote in the United States only with the 19th Amendment in 1920.
  22.  The best way to solve the participation crises, as Britain succeeded in doing in 19th century, is through slow and incremental steps.
  23.  Most theorists agree that the task of government should be to provide for the lives, stability, and economic and social well-being of its citizens.
  24.  A welfare state is the number-one capitalist, owning and running major industry.
  25.  Socialism is an economic system of government ownership of industry, allegedly for good of the whole society; opposite of capitalism.
  26.  China's rapid economic growth suggests that it will become a middle-income country, but will never be ripe for democracy.
  27.  Laissez-faire, from French means total government intervention in the economy.
  28.  In Africa, people still think of themselves as members of a tribe rather than as Ugandans or Nigerians.
  29.  Statism is an economic system of government ownership of industry, allegedly for good of the whole society; opposite of capitalism.
  30.  The capitalist states of northwest Europe offer "cradle-to-grave" benefits, such as education, health care, and retirement funds.
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