POLITICS university, then your prospects for permanent employment will depend upon the government's management of the for continued employment with McDona among other things, government policy towards foreign companies and an8 effectiveness of health education campaigns! on So far we have only considered you and the government. Suppose reaching the father snaps at beer glasses and pizza cartons you and your friends littered the place with last night? rguably this is a political situation too the family, fathers are sometimes thought to have ch9graa1 some sort of legitimate power over children. As an 18-year-old, you might react to the speech as an assertion of authority and react back negatively on the grounds that you are no longer a child to be given orders onversely your father may merely feel that in a community all should play their part and clear up their own mess But in any case a m sowa i he wants you to clear up and you do not, this can e seen as a glash of Mills in which only one can Similarly when you arrive at McDonald's it may well be you have sistant manager (who is in charge in the absence discovered that of the manager on holiday) is busy establishing in the eyes of the area manager that he can do a better job than struggle for power in which people within the organisation may take sides (form factions as political scientists ht say) in short, organisational politics is being practised It soon becomes clear that 'politics' is used in at least two senses, both of which are immediately relevant to everyone's everyday experience. In the narrowest conventional (diction what usage governments do politics is affecting usintimat day by day, an hour by hour. In the wider sense people exercising power over it is part of all sorts of social relationships, be they kinshi others occupational, religious or cultural WHAT IS POLITICS? o define "politics' more formally and precisely, we run into the sort of problems which will be found to resur again and again in this book. It is actually guite tricky to define iconcepts in Scientific disciplines like physics and chemistrylbutif youHo so, you are not so ely to be accused immediately of failing to understand the problem ViA