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Res into matters of. a pol'al nature is far more ancient than the recent development of pol'al sociol (PS). The origin of such res must be sought in the Greece of Socrates, where free citizens participated in every aspect of pol'al life. It was only much later that pol'al life became a life apart, & that the relative independence of the 'soc' & 'pol'al' became accepted as an accomplished fact. In our day, we are once more identifying these 2 concepts. Pol'al sci is still the inheritor of the preoccupations of the classical philosophers of antiquity in that it devotes itself voluntarily to the construction of an Ideal State; on the contrary, PS is not interested in res of that nature. It is 'sociol' in that it studies in a sci'fic fashion all the aspects of soc life & 'pol'al' in that the aspect studied deals with the means of conquest, of the exercise & loss of power. Its field of res is an esp wide one. Tr by J. A. Broussard from IPSA.

The pol'al behavior (PB) of a little community in the valley of Sao Francisco in the State of Bahia, Brazil, was studied by the method of functional analysis. By referring to the distinction expressed by R. K. Merton between function (adaptation) & disfunction (inadaptation), the various manifestations of pol'al life were classified. The analysis revealed the presence of a conflict between 2 portions of the community, which might or might not be an adaptation to pol'al life. There remains to be determined the aspect of PB, functional or disfunctional, which exercises the greatest influence: concerning which res always poses a delicate methodological problem. It is apparent that inadaptation has a serious repercussion on adjustment, from which stems a certain frustration felt by the opposition; this, in turn, has repercussions in the tension of the entire community & threatens to bring about its dissolution. Tr by J. A. Broussard from IPSA.