SOC103H1 Lecture Notes - Social Inequality, Direct Democracy, Panopticon
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Politics are the processes by which individuals and groups act to promote their interests. Citizens are people who belong to a state. citizenship developed out of the relative freedom of city life, granting equal treatment for all residents. State is the set of institutions with authority to make the rules that govern a society. Weber wrote that the state claims a monopoly of legitimate use of physical force within a given territory. Elections costs a lot of money, paid by taxpayers. Causes a financial burden, as well as psychic costs: politics in the last few years have been aimed at dividing canadians rather than bringing them together. Evidence from tv advertisements of political parties. We can analyze politics in various ways. Parsons argues that all these social systems have a political process, which he labels the goal attainment function. This function, is necessary for the survival of the system.
