SY101 Chapter Notes -Maurice Duplessis, Ultimate Power, Liberal Feminism
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Power the ability to carry out your will in spite of resistance. Micropolitics the exercise of power in everyday life. Macropolitics the exercise of large-scale power over a large group. Every group is political, for in every group there is a power struggle of some sort. Coercion illegitimate power (not accepted as morally correct) The state claims the exclusive right to use violence and the right to punish anyone else who does. Revolution armed resistance with the intention to overthrow a government: not only a people"s rejection of a government"s claim to rule over them but also a rejection of its monopoly on violence. The more its power is seen as legitimate, the more stable a government is. Undermined by industrialization because people are exposed to new experiences. Example of traditional authority: gender relations in most human groups, parental authority. Rational reasonable, legal part of law.
