SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Posterous, Pension, Military Dictatorship
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In 1950, new haven was a small city full of white people. The downtown was filled with slums and poor minorities, but in 1954 lee mayor made policies to make downtown a better place. The pluralists concluded that no single group exercised disproportionate power in new haven. Pluralists believed that politics worked in democracy in countries such as canada and america. Democracies are heterogeneous societies with any competing interests and centre of power. They believed in functionalist script on how society is in equilibrium while did not believe any disruptions in society. They argue that groups with opposing goals interests confront each other in political arena and that while conflict is not always overt , it is never far below the surface of political affair. Also power groups exercise more control over political life compare to others. The institution he observed in america were 200 to 200 biggest corporations. Mills showed the connection among corporate , state and military elite.
