SOC263H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter Final: Social Inequality, Social Insurance, Social Reproduction
Document Summary
A complex array of governing institutions in a society. Includes national-security, parliamentary, judiciary and some more institutions. The state itself cannot act uniformly or consciously, instead, agents can use the tools of the state to acquire, monopolize, or distribute resources and services and maintain social orders. The state and weber: according to weber, the state holds monopoly and legitimate exercise of violence. The state and marx: according to marx, the state is a superstructure that functions to protect capital. Faces of the state: legal, political, social and bureaucratic. Different expressions of state power, institutions etc. Legal: apply on everybody that lives in a democratic state. Liberal democratic state also relates social relations. Social relations are shaped by the state: distribution of production and reproduction. Fight against occupation: example india and pakistan followed occupation. No global wars since 1945 after 1945 (increasing # of states) focus on internal stability. Welfare state focus on internal stability wellbeing of citizen.
