PRE LESSON ACTIVITY If you are to choose a

leader who will

represent your
organization or
group, how would
you want this leader
to be chosen or
selected?
FORMS OF POLITICAL
ORGANIZATIONS
OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson, the students are expected to:

a. discuss how political organizations operate as an entity

which maintains societal functions
b. recognizes the differences among different types of political
organizations
c. identify the functions of the elected classroom officers
d.recognize the importance of the existence of political
organizations in maintaining order
FORMS OF POLITICAL
ORGANIZATIONS
 Societies always have some
kind of political system, the
institution concerned with
directing and organizing the
collective action of all
society’s member.
FOUR TYPES OF
POLITICAL
ORGANIZATIONS
4 Types of Political
Organization

BAND TRIBE CHIEFDOM STATE

BAND
Are made up of a family
or small number of
extended families,
usually nomadic, that
cooperate to survive by
foraging or hunting.
The size of bands may
vary with the seasons.
One society can have
many bands existing all
at the same time.
Political decision-making in
a band is informal.

Leadership is also
temporary, depending on
the need for one.
 HEADMAN
the band leader who rules
informally and is often
chosen by the members
due to some personal skills
or powers like bravery or
proficiency in hunting.
TRIBE
Comprises not just extended
families in one location but many
scattered self-sufficient
communities or villages in
different locations that are
politically integrated on the basis
of either kinship or non-kinship
groupings.
 Their political integration is
informal because there are no
formalized political positions
or offices and therefore no
institutionalized or fixed
power and authority.
 Tribal leadership is
informal, based largely
on influencing or
persuading others.
 In a kinship-based tribe, familial
ties by virtue either of birth or
marriage – where relatives are
reckoned over generations –
become the basis for membership,
regardless of location. Here elders
tend to become leaders and have
more influence over the rest
A tribe based on age set, on the
other hand, is formed through a
particular group of people of
similar age and sex going
though the same stages in life
regardless of the community or
kinship they come from.
CHIEFDOM
Is headed by chief, a
formal political head or
leader, who exercises
authority over all others
within his realm, the
commoners.
 Is headed by chief, a
formal political head or
leader, who exercises
authority over all others
within his realm, the
commoners.
 The position is often
hereditary, passed from
one person to another,
usually among males
within a single kinship
group.
 A chief occupies the top
position on the basis of some
supernatural powers from
which he rules over
commoners. Therefore, the
chief is usually both secular
and a spiritual leader.
 STATE
Chiefdom and states
share one thing in
common: their
political structure is
centralized.
 States have
something that
chiefdoms do not
have and it is called
the bureaucracy.
 In states, the bureaucracy stands
between those in power or the ruling elite
and the commoners, creating a three-
level system unlike chiefdoms, which
only have two levels comprising chief
and commoners.
 State rulers are able to
exercise control over the
entire state only because they
delegate certain tasks to a
bureaucracy.
Bureaucracy is composed of
men and women called
bureaucrats who have been
given limited power and
authority to act on behalf of
the ruler.
Leaders need to understand that what they
put out is going to intentionally or
unintentionally influence the rest of the
organization
—Kimberly Henning
ACTIVITY

Create an organizational chart

of your elected classroom
officers with their
corresponding function.
Organizational chart
End.