SOC102H1 Chapter 10: Social Problems Chapter 10 War and Terrorism
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State= set of public organizations: elected government, civil service, courts, police and military. Authoritarian state: tries to fully dominate civil society and penetrate everyday life. Ideology: a system of beliefs that explains how society is, or should be; any system of ideas underlying and informing political action. >marxist: ideological ideas justify and legitimate subordination of one group to another. World system theory: a conception of the modern social world that views it as comprising one interlinked entity with an international division of labour unregulated by any one political structure. >developed by immanuel wallerstein: seeks to explain the uneven pace of development in the world by looking at the unequal relations between different countries. Core states have the power to extract an economic surplus from the periphery. >frequently are accused of engaging in imperialism: the exercise of political and economic control by one state over the territory of another.
