SOCY 284 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Counterintuitive, Realpolitik, Adolf Eichmann

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 284
• Professor: Mollers Norma

Document Summary

Using classification to sort people into categories that allowed for human destruction in large scale. Classifying people (is done at the top), events, and things: legislature, higher-level officials, governing bodies. Assigning people (is done on the streets), events , and things into institutionalized classification systems. Bottom: permanent staff (not bound to a particular party) Potential problem - not all on the same board. Be more lenient or strict - no connection btw what policy makers do and how it is enforced. Even at the lowest level of democracy - they have more agency than we think. State bureaucracy has more power than the elected officials: central to organization and administration of the state, articulation and implementation of laws and policies. Obama and guantanamo: his first electoral campaign, promised to abandon guantanamo - did(cid:374)"t happe(cid:374) (cid:271)/(cid:272) other political institutions delay the process, change the proposal until it isnt even recognizable.