HIST 12A Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Fathom, Erving Goffman, Rulemaking
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Mary bosworth: imprisonment is, by nature, an articulation of state power, since only the state has the right to incarcerate an individual-even when it hands over the practicalities of confinement to a private organization (22) A differentiated set of institutions and personnel embodying. Centrality in the sense that political relation radiates outwards from a center to cover. A territorially demarcated area, over which it exercises. A monopoly of authoritative, binding rule-making, backed up by a monopoly of the means of physical violence. The capacity of the state to actually penetrate civil society, and to implement logistically political decisions throughout the realm. Capitalist democracies are despotically weak, yet infrastructuarally actually strong. In the 1960s there was a crisis of hegemony. There is an amount of social control and it happens with a bit of movement. Ex) give you a carrot and you can take some, but not all.
