3. Tasks of training:

- The student should know definition of concepts "authority", « political authority » and « legitimacy of authority »;

- The student should be able to distinguish structure, levels and functions of political authority.

4. The basic questions of a theme:

1. Essence and concepts of authority.

2. Concept of political authority and its feature.

3. Legitimacy of authority. Legitimacy types.

5. The control questions

1. Define the authority.

2. Name the basic concepts of authority, stop in more detail on each of them.

3. Reveal definition of political authority.

4. Name the basic attributes of political authority.

5. What are the structures and functions of political authority?

6. What is the legitimacy of authority in wide and narrow sense?

7. What types of legitimacy do you know?

1. Theme №6: Socially-ethnic a generalities and the national politics

2. The aim: to fix students knowledge of essence in an ethnic question and ways of its decision; to carry out the analysis of the basic directions and principles of national policy in RК.

3. Tasks of training: the student should know definition of concepts "ethnos", "nation", and also the basic paradigms in understanding of a category "nation";

The student should be able to comprehend features of achievement of an interethnic consensus in Republics of Kazakhstan.

4. The basic questions of a theme:

1. Ethnos and the nation. Two approaches in understanding of a category "nation"

2. The Ethnic question and its structure.

3. Forms of a national state system: unitarism, federation, confederation.

4. The Kazakhstan model of interethnic consensus achievement.

5. Control questions :

1. Define the concepts: "ethnos" and "nation".

2. What is the structure of an ethnic question?

3. What are the ways of an ethnic question decision?

4. How many the nations and national characters live in RК?

5. What is the role of Assembly of Kazakhstan people in preservation of the interethnic consent in RК?

1. The Theme7: Political system of a society

2. The aim: to fix student knowledge of essence of the political system theory, of a society, its basic concepts, structure and functions.

3. Tasks of training: the student should know classical concepts of political system of a society;

- The student should be able to distinguish types of political systems.

4. The basic questions of a theme:

1. Essence and concepts of political system of a society.

2. Structure and functions of political system.

3. Typology and criteria of political system classification.

5. Control questions :

1. What is the system?

2. Define political system of a society.

3. What scientists were engaged in development of the theory of political system of a society?

4. Present the mechanism of functioning of political system on D.Istone and Almond.

5. What are the structure and functions of political system?

6. What are criteria of classification of political systems?

7. Name the basic types of political systems.

8. Is the political regime is criterion of division of political systems on various types?

9. Name types of political systems, depending on a political regime.

1. The Theme8.1: the State and a civil society (1 employment).

2. The aim. To learn the student to disclose a problem of essence, of an origin of the state.