SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Elite Theory, Big Business, Power Balance
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People who occupy the command posts of institutions are seen as authorities: when power flows to non-authorities it undermines the legitimacy of authority. Collective attempts to change part or all of the social order. May riot, petition, strike, demonstrate, and establish pressure groups, unions, and political parties to achieve their aims. Normal politics: politics as it is practised when authorities are firmly in power. Politics beyond the rules: politics as it is practised when the legitimacy of authority is weak. Most part today, canadian politics is normal politics. State is a set of institutions that exercise control over society: individuals in civil society also exercise control over the state through a variety of organizations and institutions. One interpretation of the relationship between state and civil society. According to pluralists, because no one group of people is always able to control the political agenda or the outcome of political conflict, democracy is guaranteed.
