SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Totalitarianism, Social Inequality, Civi-Dt

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Halyna Mokrushyna

Document Summary

Politics: the social institution through which power is acquired and exercised by some people and groups. Politics is vitally important to all of us and political decisions affect us all. Government: the formal organization that has the legal and political authority to regulate the relationships among members of s a society and between society and those outside its borders. State: the political entity that possesses a legitimate monopoly over the use of force within its territory to achieve its goals. Power: the ability of persons or groups to carry out their will even when opposed by other. Authority: power that people accept authority as legitimate rather than coercive. People are more likely to accept authority as legitimate if its reflects theirs own beliefs and values legitimation: the process by which power is institutionalized and given a moral foundation to justify its existence.