FREN 320 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Bourgeoisie, Civil Society

• School: Queen's University
• Department: French Studies
• Course: FREN 320
• Professor: Normand Perreault

Document Summary

Pols241 week 4 readings chapter 4 in textbook (military politics in three polity areas: civil society, political society and the state. 3 most important arenas of the polity: 1) civil society. Arena where manifold social movements and civic organizations from all classes (lawyers, trade unions etc) attempt to constitute themselves in an ensemble of arrangements so that they can express themselves and advance their interests: 2) political society. The arena in which the polity arranges itself for political contestation to gain control over public power and the state apparatus. The continuous administrative, legal, bureaucratic and coercive system that attempts to manage the state and to structure the relationship between civil and public power and to structure many crucial relationships between civil and political society. The state eliminates any significant autonomy in political or civil society. Political society is frequently absorbed by dominant groups into the state, but civil society characteristically has at least some degree of autonomy in certain spheres.