POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Civil Society, Proletariat, Distribution Of Wealth
8 Feb 2017
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Understand be able to define to the concept of the state. Credited with creating modern notions of statehood. Series of peace treaties to establish sovereignty. State: a political community where a single mechanism exercises supreme authority within a given territory (distinct from the government) Your view of what the state ought to do depends on which ideology you subscribe to. (liberal, socialist, etc. ) ((dispute over meaning)) line) relies on how they (cid:1441)ought(cid:1442) to be, not ideal. Family, civil society (universal egoism) & state itself. Doesn(cid:1442)t recognize any connection between family, civil society & state. (private. Meant to maintain social order & fulfills a function that society needs. Society is complex, functionalist aspect needs stability. Lots of stories without evidence. (unverifiable claims) Apparatus of government in the broadest sense. View that our textbook adopts while discussing state. (most common view of the.
