HREQ 1910 Study Guide - Final Guide: Antonio Gramsci, Civil Society, First Nations
4 Apr 2017
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Hreq 1910 global south and human rights final exam review. When the state is exploitative, coercive and alien structure, it has no credibility or legitimacy to lead the people. For hope, leadership and a sense of community and belonging, the people turn to ethnic, religious and social organizations, to help them meet those needs. As a result, the idea of the state becomes irrelevant. The state can dominate the people in two ways: political domination, civil society. Significance: when the state is exploiting their own people, the people feel that they cannot put their faith and hope into their government. Therefore, the government does not have that much power with their people and the people would turn to religion for guidance. (the. Civil society: a vast ensemble of constantly changing groups and individuals whose only common ground is that they are outside the state and who have acquired some consciousness of their marginality and opposition to the state.
