POLS 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gender Role, Classical Antiquity, Work Ethic
4 Apr 2015
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Exercise of power is shaped through relations of authority. Formal relationships in sovereign power of the state. Broader human relationships, social relationships within a social framework or system. We accept these relationships and the authority they carry and give our consent. When these relationships are challenged then it is a time of upheaval and social change. Feudal europe - society lived by authority of roman church - hierarchal. Knowledge came from power relations with god. Modern liberalist - hobbes, locke, mill - rejected idea of fixed ideal. Can never be free from power since social relationships do not happen outside of power. In classical antiquity fixed, divine order of authority. In feudal europe authority exerted through the church hierarchy who possessed the knowledge of proper authority through the revelation of the word of god. Modern liberal theorists: authority secular and rational, conventional fashioned by human reason, progressing.
