SOCI 1002H Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sentenced, Consumerism, Aggressive Panhandling
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Why [and how] is the minority [power elites] more powerful than the majority [middle. Consensus: ideologies of natural or necessary inequality. State governs through coercive use of its legitimate power: arrest/ detention/ incarceration/ execution. Through consensus: manufacturing consent: social services, charter, democracy. Organizing structure of complex advances societies: war, public safety, economy, rule of law, education, health care, etc. Social control: sole source of the right to use violence, creation and enforcement of law. Political and economic power is regulated through law. Respect for and protection of difference: sex, race, orientation, religion, etc. Accumulation: ex. / trillion dollar bailouts to automakers, cpp is used for military purposes: . 6 million invested in military contracts; 1/3 of those in the u. s". National security: access to justice, criminalization of dissent, criminalization of poverty. Death in workplace ranks third after heart disease and cancer. 40% of industrial accidents" are a result of working conditions that are both unsafe and.