POL 1101 Lecture 3: Politics lecture 3

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 1101
• Professor: Matthew Paterson

Document Summary

Tilly & weber - violence and legitimation: 20th century social scientist, weberian, emphasis on large scale social/political change, key dynamics of modern state emergence: violence and legitimacy. Force will inevitably be used by state. Marx/engels - social relations and social form: long time collaborators, german jews in england. History of modern state forms - the violence of the welfare state (and beyond?) Global expansion of states - from europe to the world. Emergence of capitalism (civilization: contradictions of feudalism. Feudal lords and monarchs dependent on towns/cities for luxuries: expansive imperial logics. Gain of land = gain of power: emergence of urban bourgeoisie. Class not directly productive: classic logic of bourgeoisie. Hostile to feudal constraints - on trade, mobility. Form of social relation based on contract & free labour. Prone to technological innovation: bourgeoisie must constantly invent the instruments of production, story of the rise of the bourgeoisie.