Zuckerman, Ethan. Class, Status and Party (pp. Retrieved January 09, 2012 fromhttp://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/. For example, changes in the types of jobs generated by the economy will affect the size of electoral support for labour unions and labour union politics. The state is a means of attaining societal goals. The Occupy Wall Street movement has addressed the constraints on meaningful democracy in North America. The communities have leaders, but leaders who are listened to only because of the respect accorded to them. (An absolute monarchy is agovernment wherein a monarch has absolute or unmitigated power.) Which of the followingstatements represent a symbolic interactionist perspective on the state? Politics (1) is the means by which form is given to the life of a people. 2005. Therefore, democracy always exists in a state of tension with the authority of the sovereign state. Webers answer is based on a distinction between the concepts of power and authority. Acton, Lord. Direct democracy can be contrasted with modern forms of representative democracy, like that practised in Canada. power (1) the ability to exercise ones will over others; (2) the capacity or to create and act. Sociologists have a distinctive approach to studying governmental power and authority that differs from the perspective of political scientists. Leviathan: The English Works of Thomas Hobbes (Volume 3). The exception is increasingly becoming the norm (Agamben 2005; Hardt and Negri 2004). A| 15. Forrest, William. The abstractness of Parsonss language is both a strength and weakness of the functionalist approach to government and the state. The Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Days Jet Ski photo op during the 2000 federal election undermined his credibility aspotential prime ministerial material, just as Progressive Conservative leader Robert Stanfields football fumble on the airport tarmac in the 1974 federal election undermined his bid to appear more youthful (Smith 2012). When these supranational forces become organized on a formal basis, we might begin to speak about the re-emergence of empires as a type of political exception. Commenting on singer-songwriter Neil Youngs 2014 Honour the Treaties tour in Canada, Gill notes that the effectiveness of this type of image event is in the emotional resonance it establishes between the general public and aboriginal groups fighting tar sands development. 13. Schmitt argued that the authentic activity of politicsthe sphere of the politicalonly becomes clear in moments of crisis when leaders are obliged to make a truly political decision, (for example, to go to war). Max Weber defined power (1) as the chance of a man or of a number of men to realize their own will in a communal action even against the resistance of others who are participating in the action (Weber1919a, p. 180). The Table Talk of Marshall McLuhan. MacLeans. Willing to participate: Political engagement of young adults. Canadian Social Trends. Citizenship refers to __________________. There is no real internal conflict or disagreement within them thatwould have to be settled politically. London: Verso. In exchange, the sovereign provides law and security for all(i.e., for the commonwealth). The heart of politics is the result of small-scale exchanges between individuals and small groups over periods of time. 53(6) November. Many of these sites of the exercise of power fall outside our normal understanding of power because they do not seem politicalthey do not address fundamental questions or disagreements about a whole way of lifeand because the relationships between power and resistance in them can be very fluid. At the right end of the spectrum are economic conservatives who advocate minimal taxes and a purely spontaneous, competitive market-driven mechanism for the distribution of wealth and essential services (including health care and education), while at the left end of the spectrum are socialists who advocate progressive taxes and state redistribution of wealth and services to create social equality or equality of condition. A second axis of division in voter preference has to do with social policy and collective decision modes. At the right end of the spectrum is authoritarianism (law and order, limits on personal autonomy, exclusive citizenship, hierarchical decision making, etc. However, some argue that the formation of a contemporary global order has seen the development of a new unbounded and centre-less type of empire. This model of democratic will formation in Canada is not without its problems. Noam Chomsky argues, for example, that the United States government is the most significant terrorist organization in the world because of its support for illegal and irregular wars, its backing of authoritarian regimes that use illegitimate violence against their populations, and its history of destabilizing foreign governments and assassinating foreign political leaders (Chomsky 2001; Chomsky and Herman 1979). In the analysis of Nicos Poulantzas (1973), the state performs a key role in maintaining the integration of capitalist society, which is otherwise threatened by class conflict and even conflict within the capitalist class itself. Democracy however is not a static political form. The modern state system, based on the concept of state sovereignty, came into existence after the ThirtyYears War in Europe (16181648) as a solution to the problem of continual, generalized states of war. Endeavours to gain power and influence do not necessarily lead to domination, violence, exploitation, or abuse. For Aristotle, this meant that there was an ideal size for a polis, which he defined as the number of people that could be taken in in a single glance (Aristotle 1908). The photos were then used to start a protest group called We Are All Khaled Said, which now has more than a million members (Pollock 2011). 2008 (1832). 1989. Functionalism is a complex philosophical theory that pertains to a variety of disciplines beyond sociology. A dominant nation, for instance, will often use its clout to influence or support other governments or to seize control of other nation states. A citizens interaction with a police officer is a good example of how people react to authority in everyday life. 2011. Cities under Siege: The New Military Urbanism. However, when Kobas betrayal of Caesar leads to a war with the humans that threatens the apes survival, Caesar is forced to make an impossible decision: break the moral code and kill Koba, or risk further betrayal and dissension that will undermine his ability to lead. Deleuze, Gilles and Felix Guattari. His three types of authority are traditional authority, charismatic authority, and rational-legal authority (Weber 1922). Its attacks on civilian and military targets, including the American embassies in East Africa in 1998, the World Trade Center in 2001, and the bombings in Bali in 2002, are means to demand the end of Western influence in the Middle East and the establishment of fundamentalist Wahhabi Islamic caliphates. Retrieved July 22, 2014, from http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2014/01/18/Neil-Young-Stephen-Harper/. For centuries, philosophers, politicians, and social scientists have explored and commented on the nature of power. Which concept corresponds best to the functionalist analysis of the state? Relationship Between Law And Political Science: Law and Political science are relatively intertwined as they both form core aspects of each other Basically, Law sets up the Government and regulates their actions, while the Government which is an institution of Political science makes the Laws in a society. Listen 3:47. Determining what is and what is not a substantial issue is a crucial component of political communication. For Hobbes, there could be no society in the absence of a sovereign power that stands above individuals to over-awe them all (1651, p. 112). A| 9. The De-Centring of the State: Terrorism, War, Empire, and Political Exceptionalism Then, write a paragraph describing the personal qualities that led to this persons influence, considering the society in which this leader emerged. The challenge to power must not be addressed towards the state, Foucault argues, but to the local sites, practices, relationships, discourses, and institutions where the effects of power are directly experienced. B| 22. Attentat de lhtel Terminus by Osvaldo Tofani(http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Attentat_de_l%27h%C3%B4tel_Terminus.jpg) is in public domain, Figure 17.13. For instance, a person who sees the flashing red and blue lights of a police car in his or her rearview mirror usually pulls to the side of the road without hesitation. Symbolic interactionists would note however that the ability to attribute persuasive meaning to political claims is a communicative process that operates at multiple levels. In Figure 17.14 we have represented this shift in political preferences in the difference between the ellipse centred on the free-market/state redistribution axis and the ellipse centred on the free-market-social-conservativism/ redistribution-social-liberalism axis (Kitschelt 1995). The challenges to state authority have intensified in recent years, leading to the observation that states of exception have become the norm. The power of the state, understood to operate through the formulation and enforcement of rights and laws, relies on an order that is in fact produced by a multitude of non-state micro-power relationships that extend throughout society. (Inglehart 2008). B| 11. 2. D| 20. Statistics Canada Catalogue No. MacKinnon argues that the dominant concepts of jurisprudence that regulate the relation of law and life(i.e., the neutrality of the law, the protection of abstract rights and freedoms, etc.) Today, Argentina is a federal, democratic republic with governing power divided between executive, legislative, and judicial branches. This practice of calculated symbolization through which political actors attempt to control or manipulate the impressions they make on the public is known as image management or image branding. 2014. Vikings attacked continental European tribes in search of loot, and later, European explorers landed on foreign shores to claim the resources of indigenous peoples. Theoretical Perspectives on Government and Power legitimation function the role of the state in securing social harmony and the consent of the public to be ruled, monarchya form of government in which a single person, or monarch, rules until that individual dies or abdicates the throne, nation-state a political unit whose boundaries are co-extensive with a society, normalization of militarization the contradictory and tense social process in which civil society organizes itself for the production of violence, oligarchy a form of government in which power is held by a small, elite group, one person, one vote a concept holding that each persons vote should be counted equally, patrimonialism a type of authority wherein military and administrative factions enforce the power of the master, pluralist theory the state acts as a neutral mediator to balance the competing interests and demands of divergent interest groups in society, politics (1) the means by which form is given to the life of a people, politics (2) the activity of striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state, political demand the underlying societal factors and social changes that create constituencies of people with common interests, political supply the strategies and organizational capacities of political parties to deliver an appealing political program to particular constituencies, postmaterialist concerns with quality-of-life issues: personal autonomy, self-expression, environmental integrity, womens rights, gay rights, the meaningfulness of work, habitability of cities, etc, post-security a condition in which lethal violence is present as a constant potentiality, always and everywhere ready to erupt. MacKinnon, Catherine. Numerous other videos and images, similarly appalling, were posted on social media sites to build awareness and incite activism among local citizens and the larger global community. Rebick, Judy. However, in recent years, among many other examples we could cite, we have seen how the events of the Arab Spring in Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt (20102011) put seemingly stable political institutions and processes into question. Ideally no individual is prevented from speaking (not by arbitrary restrictions on who is permitted to speak, nor by practical restrictions on participation like poverty or lack of education). Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. institutions of democracy the institutions that organize the regular processes of democracy including Parliament, the civil service, electoral procedures, constitutions, rule of law, etc. In this case, Caesar suspends the law of the apes and dispenses with Koba in his first act of emergency power. In one of Max Webers last public lecturesPolitics as a Vocation (1919)he asked, what is the meaning of political action in the context of a whole way of life? In his lecture Politics as a Vocation, he argues, The decisive means for politics is violence (Weber1919b, p. 121). Three Normative Models of Democracy. Pp. 21. Politics is not exclusively about the state or a property of the state. Delucca, Kevin. People adhere to traditional authority because they are invested in the past and feel obligated to perpetuate it. The typical headman structure in hunter-gatherer societies is a mechanism of collective decision making in which the headman takes a leadership role, but only on the provisional basis of his recognized prestige, his ability to influence or persuade, and his attunement with the groups desires. They also tend to hold power for short durations only because power based on charisma is fickle and unstable. This might be too narrow a way to think about politics, however, because it often makes it appear that politics is something that only happens far away in the state. It is a way of giving form to politics that takes control out of the hands of people. 2011. In this respect it is interesting to note that many nomadic or hunter-gather societies developed mechanisms that specifically prevent formal, enduring state organizations from developing. 2005. The anarchist program was (and still is) to maximize the personal freedoms of individuals by organizing society on the basis of voluntary social arrangements. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. According to functionalism, modern forms of government have four main purposes: planning and directing society, meeting collective social needs, maintaining law and order, and managing international relations. Ottawas spin doctor payroll rivals that of the Commons. Toronto Star. On the other hand, government deals with the rule by the elected party. Canadian Parliament Buildings Ottawa byWest Annex News (https://www.flickr.com/photos/westannexnews/10473990843/) used under CC BY SA 2.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/), Figure 17.4. The De-Centring of the State: Terrorism, War, Empire, and Political Exceptionalism, 17.4. New York: Charles Scribners. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press. Milan, Anne. The role of the state and its influence on society (and vice versa) is just one aspect of governmental relationships. 1991 [1908]. On the other side of governmental power and authority are the various forms of resistance to being ruled. Table 17.1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Zizek, Slavoj. 2011. Earlier in this chapter,we noted that the radical standpoint of anarchism provides a useful standpoint from which to examine the sociological question of the state. Why? 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