SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Financialization, Class Conflict, Naimans
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The state and its role in class / capitalist relations. An organized political structure that carries out tasks required by more complex societies as their population and geographic size increase, as warfare and trade expand, and as social inequalities become more extreme (naiman, 2012, p. 165) Implies power implicated in this role and gets to exercise some control: state is controlling o, organizing function and that helps maintain order, prevents chaos o, how does this relate to distal relations of power. From a critical marxist perspective: not just organization, also social control. The economic class privately owns and (increasingly) control economic activity society. If just the wealthiest people owned everything it wouldn"t be good. The state is collectively the government, military, police, and judiciary o: doesn"t take care of anything else just economic activity, takes care of everything else that the economic class doesn"t take care of.
