POLSCI 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Feudalism, Social Forces
1 Mar 2017
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Human communities are, by and large, organized under the authority of states. However - a world divided into separate states is not the only way of thinking about social/political life and how it is organized social forces are mediated by social states. *what do we make of the state? the state as an institution has a history. the state centric model does not give us respects on how social and political forces merit. According to dickerson and flanagan: a state is defined by the joint presence of three factors: population, territory, and sovereignty. A state exists when a sovereign power effectively rules over a population residing within the boundaries of a fixed territory population, sovereignty, and territory: sovereignty. Control is the most historically variable component of statehood. Historically, some degree of control was required for being recognized as a sovereign state. However, control is not in and of itself sufficient to guarantee the recognition of statehood.
