SOC102H1 Chapter Notes -Libration, Cyberterrorism, Symbolic Interactionism
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State: a set of public organizations that makes and enforces decisions binding every member of a society. Authoritarian state: tries to dominate civil society and penetrate everyday life. Canada power is shared among competing political, bureaucratic and economic elites, would have difficulty mobilizing the will and assets to wage war less engagement in war than us. Ideology: a system of beliefs about how society is or should be organized; motivates and controls. Rebirth of religion as a political force testifies largely to downfall of commuinsm: many fundamentalist religions gaining power chrsitian fundamentalism in us, jewish in. Canada commitment to multiculturalism makes a strong unified religious or ideological belief impossible. Us and uk) are financially and politically dominant and take much of raw materials and cheap labour they need from less developed peripheral states. Imperialism: control by on state over the territory of another; core states accused of this.