POLS 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bourgeoisie, World History
17 Jan 2018
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Individuals can be motivated by religious and ideological concepts: seeing violence or action is attractive because it shapes things up. In somalia, if you kill my brother, than the elders in our respective families will come together to determine what happened and then negotiate a settlement of some kind. Compensation will then be paid from your family to mine: the state is not involved. In the biblical story of king solomon, two women appealed to the king to resolve their dispute about the who was the rightful owner of a baby. He threatened to cut the baby in half: state is important in the resolution of conflict, conflicts in contemporary society are investigated, managed and resolved by appealing to the state . That is why if john smith kills frank stephens the resulting court case is not. Stephens versus smith but r [regina] versus smith.
