SOCI 1002H Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sentenced, Corporate Welfare, Structural Adjustment
5 Apr 2016
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How should diferences between us be ariculated: rights, protecion, interests. Democracy is a very powerful insituion, that is more then elecing people nto oice. The role of the state: organzing structure of complex advanced socieies. War, trade, economy, rule of law, educaion: social control. Sole source of the right to use violence. Stateelected governmentscriminal jusice systemeducaion systemmilitaryhealth caretaxaion (distribuion of wealth)families. Private sphere accumulaion and control of wealth (jobs and wages) poverty unemployment polluion crime. Pluralism: checks and balances against centralized power, level playing ield, equal in law in society, the state is there to propose a compromise between opposing powers, assumpions: equality is present in the society. Basic qualiies of democracy: freedom of thought and acion, poliical and economic power is regulated through law, respect for and protecion of diference. Sex, race, orientaion, religion, etc: equal opportunity of condiion. The power, persuasion and coercion that is held of our acions and other things.
