SOCI 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Wage Labour, Working Animal, Pastoralism
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The state is the institution that maintains a monopoly over the legitimate use of force within a given territory. It is the domain of politics and thus of power. Example: police, army they can use that force only in their own territory, they have authorization to use it only there. Economy is the system that organizes the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services. Political economy: studies the social and political relations that organize the production, distribution and consumption of resources and goods. Horticulturalism domesticating plants and animals; begin to see division of labour. Agriculture some people manage to accumulate food, some don"t, presence of inequality rises. Pastoralism herding large groups of animals and moving from place to place with them exponentially here. Note: the shift from one economic system to another is never total" or complete". New sources of power (distinct from human or animal power_