SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: George C. Homans, Marcus Cunliffe, Political Sociology
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Politics: the processes by which individuals and groups act to promote their interests. Citizenship developed out of the relative freedom of city life, granting equal treatment for all residents. State: the set of institutions with authority to make the rules that govern a society. Weber wrote that the state claims a monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory" (controls the citizen"s lives) Politics lately have taken a toll on people"s psychic, along with the financial burden in canada politics have divided canadians instead of united them. Most of the leaders/political figures are also from middle and upper-middle class. Leading functionalist of mid-20th century is talcott parson made a book the social. The social system focused on politics as a key process in different kinds of social systems that include families, small groups, large organizations, empires, and so on. Parsons argues that all these social systems have a political process goal attainment function .
