POLS 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Contract, Human Nature, For Marx

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2200
• Professor: Naomi Couto

Document Summary

Introduction 2: law, state, and social goals and techniques. State: power and authority- who has it and what do they do with it. Within any groups there will be differing ideas and interest among group members (cid:1) (cid:1) Democracy, in theory at least, encourages the greats redistribution of power and the greats amount of change (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Politics is the process of who get what, where, when, why and how. What drives us to enter into a society- and why stay in it? (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) We are all social beings (no one person is an island) We are untied by the arrangements we make with each or to surrender some of our desires, for some of our needs (cid:1) We need guiding authority, traditions, and rituals to be based on consensus we don"t want a raw state of nature (cid:1)