POLITICAL SCIENCE 101 CHAPTER 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
in many ways - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Politics is defined
the process through which power and influence are used in promotion of certain values and interests. -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Politics is
What if the statement on a t-shirt is full of hateful references to a specific group? What if it incites
people to engage in violence? What should happen if a political statement on a T-shirt uses extremely
vulgar language.? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Some political questions are
is associated with those aspects of life that have public significance. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅For our
purposes, politics
even more broadly to refer to competition over values in domains that are not truly public, such as the
politics of the family or office politics. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Sometimes the term politics is used
the area that is subject to politics is very large. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅In almost every contemporary
society,
When you begin to ask Assessment questions, and especially when you try to answer them. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Political Analysis
the attempt to describe (to answer the what questions) and then to explain politics (to answer the why
and how questions). - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Political Analysis is
is that they usually reflect the values and interests of the sources of the statement. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅One reason to be suspicious of statements about politics
a set of techniques, concepts and approaches whose objective is to increase the clarity and accuracy of
our understandings about the political world. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Political science is
, 1. descriptions of political facts 2. explanations of how and why politics occurs as it does 3. prescriptions
of what should happen in the political world - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅An individual's understanding of
politics is composed of three general types of political knowledge:
on what questions and is usually based on one or more facts. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A description
focuses
specify why something happens and to provide the reason or process by which the phenomenon occurs.
- CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Explanation attempts to
a value judgment that indicates what should occur and should be done. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A
prescription is
what ought to be, not merely description and explanation of what is. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Thus, a
prescription deals with answers to questions about
your value judgments - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Normative political knowledge is
1. your descriptive knowledge of certain facts. 2. your explanatory knowledge about why certain
outcomes occur and most important 3. your priorities among competing values. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Normative political knowledge combines three types of understanding:
Three important sources: 1. authority. 2. personal thought. 3. science. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Each
individual's political knowledge is a unique combination of descriptive facts, explanations and
prescriptions about politics. What is the basis of such knowledge?
the appeal to any document, tradition, or person that is believed to posses the controlling explanation
regarding a particular issue. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Authority (source of knowledge) involves
1. specific authority. 2. general authority. 3. everyone. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅3 kinds of authority
sources:
in many ways - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Politics is defined
the process through which power and influence are used in promotion of certain values and interests. -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Politics is
What if the statement on a t-shirt is full of hateful references to a specific group? What if it incites
people to engage in violence? What should happen if a political statement on a T-shirt uses extremely
vulgar language.? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Some political questions are
is associated with those aspects of life that have public significance. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅For our
purposes, politics
even more broadly to refer to competition over values in domains that are not truly public, such as the
politics of the family or office politics. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Sometimes the term politics is used
the area that is subject to politics is very large. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅In almost every contemporary
society,
When you begin to ask Assessment questions, and especially when you try to answer them. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Political Analysis
the attempt to describe (to answer the what questions) and then to explain politics (to answer the why
and how questions). - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Political Analysis is
is that they usually reflect the values and interests of the sources of the statement. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅One reason to be suspicious of statements about politics
a set of techniques, concepts and approaches whose objective is to increase the clarity and accuracy of
our understandings about the political world. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Political science is
, 1. descriptions of political facts 2. explanations of how and why politics occurs as it does 3. prescriptions
of what should happen in the political world - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅An individual's understanding of
politics is composed of three general types of political knowledge:
on what questions and is usually based on one or more facts. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A description
focuses
specify why something happens and to provide the reason or process by which the phenomenon occurs.
- CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Explanation attempts to
a value judgment that indicates what should occur and should be done. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A
prescription is
what ought to be, not merely description and explanation of what is. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Thus, a
prescription deals with answers to questions about
your value judgments - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Normative political knowledge is
1. your descriptive knowledge of certain facts. 2. your explanatory knowledge about why certain
outcomes occur and most important 3. your priorities among competing values. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Normative political knowledge combines three types of understanding:
Three important sources: 1. authority. 2. personal thought. 3. science. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Each
individual's political knowledge is a unique combination of descriptive facts, explanations and
prescriptions about politics. What is the basis of such knowledge?
the appeal to any document, tradition, or person that is believed to posses the controlling explanation
regarding a particular issue. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Authority (source of knowledge) involves
1. specific authority. 2. general authority. 3. everyone. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅3 kinds of authority
sources:
