SOC 3306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Fundamentalism, Arab Spring, Islamism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3306
• Professor: Adolphine Y.Aggor- Boateng

Document Summary

There is a link when women have a good relationship with the state and the state cares for women, women will succeed. Influence economic participation through politics, and the well being with the state. The yoruba women are very independent, and market autonomous, the are married woman traders. Market women have significant role in how they control the state. Single women are seen as being bitter: married women think something is wrong with single women, the state interferes and make them marry abusive men. The concept of the state: the structure of the larger institution where the government operates. Weber: classical theorist says what the state means. When you enter the state, it is pro, anti, friendly or hostile. The state is not in a historical vacuum but in the historical background. States make reference to a historical period and the political discourse at that time.