Question

2. Politics is seen as a struggle over
limited resources and power can
be seen as the means through
which this struggle is conducted explaination​

Answer 1

Answer:

Politics is exciting because people disagree. They disagree about how they should

live. Who should get what? How should power and other resources be distributed?

Should society be based on cooperation or conflict? And so on. They also disagree

about how such matters should be resolved. How should collective decisions be

made? Who should have a say? How much influence should each person have? And

so forth. For Aristotle, this made politics the ‘master science’: that is, nothing less

than the activity through which human beings attempt to improve their lives and

create the Good Society. Politics is, above all, a social activity. It is always a

dialogue, and never a monologue. Solitary individuals such as Robinson Crusoe may

be able to develop a simple economy, produce art, and so on, but they cannot

engage in politics. Politics emerges only with the arrival of a Man (or Woman)

Friday. Nevertheless, the disagreement that lies at the heart of politics also extends

to the nature of the subject and how it should be studied. People disagree about

what it is that makes social interaction ‘political’, whether it is where it takes place

(within government, the state or the public sphere generally), or the kind of activity

it involves (peacefully resolving conflict or exercising control over less powerful

groups). Disagreement about the nature of politics as an academic discipline means

that it embraces a range of theoretical approaches and a variety of schools of

analysis. Finally, globalizing tendencies have encouraged some to speculate that the

disciplinary divide between politics and international relations has now become

redundant.