This app introduces you to the following: Defining power, functionalist, Marxist, pluralist and elite theory of power; power and the state; state centered theories of power; the sources of power; the contribution of sociology to the study of politics, including the political aspects of social systems, the social context action e.g. political parties, and the social basis of power; globalization of power of the nation-state; The relationship of political and economic elites with the social groups in East African societies, voting behavior, new social movements and the new politics