SOCI 1002H Chapter Notes - Chapter 8-9: Capital Accumulation
28 Feb 2017
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An organized political structure that carries out tasks required by more complex societies as their population and geographical size increase, as warfare and trade expand, and as social inequalities become more extreme. This gives this class enormous power over the productive process because it has the capacity to organize and intensify production for its own immediate interests. However, the negative consequences of its activities pollution, poverty, unemployment, etc. are usually dealt with by governments. It is only the benefits of productive activity that are privatized in capitalist societies, while the costs are transferred to the public sphere. In the pluralist analysis, society consists of a variety of groups and associations with highly diverse and often conflicting interests. According to the pluralist analysis, no single group totally dominates political structures. A key function of the state, from this perspective, is mediation between the many different interest groups.
