SOC 7171 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Policy Network, The Takeaway

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 7171
• Professor: Betul Eski

Document Summary

State power has gained control within the last decade whether or not as a means of investigation or explain an outcome of interest. Society centered: previous theories have rarely spoken of states, the state is considered of something old-fashioned conception and has national principles, government was an arena which economic interest groups, social movements, public policy decisions. There were too many generalizations but no causal weight variables: emerged during the industrial and democratic revolution, the 70s is when states became actors and shape/change societal institutions. Continental revival: realities of social change and policies in europe refused to accept the de- emphasis of the state and its impact on society. Weber: states are compulsatory associations that claim control over territories and the people in them. They structure the relations between civil society and public authority. Non-constituting officials seek to use the state as a whole to direct and reconstruct society and policy.