SOCI 265- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 67 pages long!)

• School: McGill University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 265
• Professor: Mehri Ghazanjani

Document Summary

Fascination for violence bc humans don"t have an innate capacity for violence or peace. Requires an institutionalise concept of power: we need to understand he sources of social violence and power. Power has diffused throughout time but also penetrated (technology of surveillance) (cid:373)ith (cid:862)(cid:272)o(cid:374)trolled (cid:271)y hidde(cid:374) ha(cid:374)ds: authoritative power (boss around, vs diffused power (entails command rather than authority- complacency to go bc in best self-interest power is normalised and institutionalised, michael mann societies as organized power networks. Sources of social power: different sources of power can set the speed of social life at different periods. Ideological: transcendent -600/700, a lot of power in the hands of religious elites (emergence of. Nazi germany, soviet union: need legitimacy in order to have power. Liberal democracies during wws because were able to mobilise people much more efficiently than the nazis: state expenditure over time low and then leaps during napoleonic wars always increases with wars and never goes back down.