SOCI 1002 Lecture 9: Politics and Canadian Nationalism
30 Apr 2012
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Politics is a machine that determines who gets what when and how. Power fuels the machine, power is the ability to control others, even against their will. It depends on the context or the meaning you give something (political: for example, choosing to go to class or not can be a political gesture if students are all on strike to lower tuition costs. Politics as a site of struggle between ideas and people with ideas. Politics as a site of production of politics. Something that can be used against you to make you do something you don"t want to do. Control over someone even against their will. Power is a two-sided idea between domination and discipline. A has power over b to the extent that he can get b to do something that b wouldn"t otherwise do. The states is the only organization that possessed in history the monopoly of legitimate physical coercion.
