Student in our class organize themselves into eight groups to ponder various questions.

1/9/07 - Students the first day. The following are the answers asked in class today and the group responses. Nick took notes; here are your points:
    What is Politics?
  1. Group 1: Process (election, representation)
  2. G2: Collective Decision-making
  3. G3: People (state and government, issues)
  4. G4: Social Interaction - everything is politics
  5. G5: Strugle for power to gain control over people and/or a region
  6. G6: Power, Control, Government, Invluence, create society/civilization
  7. G7: Power and Control
  8. G8: Figuring out who controls wealth and power.
    What should political/research methodology be about?
  1. G1: Analysis/Study of history, society, and social interaction in order to understand governments limitations and trends
  2. G2: Analysing political actors and processes to maintain and improve control.
  3. G3: Study of Political ideology and why governments succeed and/or fail.
  4. G4: Research on power, control, opinion, and patterns of behavior, using statistics.
  5. G5: Patterns of past political behavior, factors that influence who has political power, and how it is used.
  6. G6: Critical analysis of all of the above and identifying different perspectives.
  7. G7: Analysis of actions of past in order to gain political benifit in the present.
  8. G8: (who controls wealth/power) the economics of wealth and power.

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