SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Great Depression, Feudalism, State Capitalism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 104
• Professor: Lock Rebecca

Document Summary

Key ideas about the role of the state. Protection- warfare and trade expand from increasing factors need protection from each other: inequalities. Based on this definition, there is a functional necessity to the role of the state. Distal relation of power: state vs. government, organizing and managing component, efficient. But from a critical marxist perspective the state does not just organize, it socially controls. The mandate of the state military/legal/ admin etc. economic activity . Feudalism: the aristocracy controlled economic activity as well as. Presently, the economic class privately owns and (increasingly) controls. The state, collectively the government, military, police, and judiciary : increasingly having less to do with the economic sphere and left to deal with forms of violence, administration, legal system. Responsible for the repercussions of private economic activity: feudal contemporary. Order theory (pluralist function: functionalist point of view would use government rather than the state, pluralist: several interest groups, elected representatives- municipal, provincial or federal, concerned with.