SOCB47H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Post-Structuralism, White Privilege, Matthew Effect
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Text book definition: power exercised through direct political rule (for example, the rule over subjects by a monarch or the representatives of monarch). It can also include other asymmetrical relationships, such as the patriarchal authority of men over their wives, children, and servants. Sovereign power is best described as power over groups and individuals, and it is generally negative and prohibitive. Sovereign power is expansive, and can be exercised as total control. European explorers removed children from their regular school system and placed them in what was called residential schools and fined for doing so: parents : if parents tried to send their children to boarding schools, they would be jailed, disease : residential schools were infested with disease and it"s unclean lines proved to be inhospitable to the children that went to them, 40 50% of the children that did, died.
