SOCI 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Rulemaking, Social Inequality, Social Change
6 Nov 2018
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Change through policy and the law - part 1. The alteration of culture and social institutions over time. One of the main things sociologists study: how social institutions can perpetuate an inequality or create social change. Outside institutional channels to cultural change through social movements. A set of institutions [that is] attached to a geographic territory and maintain[s] a monopoly on rule-making, coercion, and violence within that area. Knowing that there are consequences to going against the state, it keeps people in check. States are beginning to intervene in the lives of their citizens. A particular type of state that performs 3 main functions: Reduce economic insecurities (illness, old age, unemployment, etc) The state needs to have money to perform these functions. It needs to have the power to take this money (taxes) These are all well and good, but welfare states have a much broader role in regulating the economy.
