Textbook Assignment 1

The answers to these questions are in chapters 1 & 2 of the textbook.

1. What is the political concept of legitimacy?
2. What are two reasons why politics isn't quantifiable?
3. What are the traditional hallmarks of scholarship?
4. What is the difference between a primary source and a secondary source?
5. What is the difference between something that is descriptive and something that is normative?
6. What is a social contract?
7. What was the most important factor in society according to Karl Marx?
8. What is rational-choice theory?

You will have four of these assignments before the midterm and the questions will appear on your exam. If you missed this assignment, you can't turn it in for credit, but you do need to get the answers to these questions.