POLS 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Advocacy Group, Voluntary Sector, Social Movement
14 Jan 2018
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Politics is the practice of attempting to influence the decisions of a collective to act or not to act in a particular manner. Private sector: the profit-orientated, nongovernmental part of the economy. Voluntary sector: the non-profit sector of the economy, as opposed to the public sector (government) and the profit-oriented private sector. Public sector: the part of the economy operated or financed by government. To say an issue is a public issue: is to express the opinion that some gov"t action should be taken. Power-ability of one actor to impose its will on another, to get its own way, to do or get what it wants. Max weber defined power as the probability that one actor within a social relationship will be in a position to carry out his own will despite resistance . Influence-is the imposition of one"s will on another through persuasion and voluntary compliance-without either accompanying threats or deference to authority.
