Solving Society’s Problems
According to Social Problems, what specific benefits would the transition to economic democracy bring to society?
In Race, Class, and Gender, Andersen and Collins assert that “all sites of change contain emancipatory possibilities, if only we can learn to imagine them” (p. 504). Using examples from Part IV, describe several examples of people working to change unjust policies and practices.
Solving Society`s Problems
States emerged as distinctive sorts of organizations some 10,000 years ago. Before then, victorious violence and organized power certainly existed, but did not crystallize in states; they did not congeal, that is, into coercion-wielding organizations, separate from kinship structures, that exercised priority in some regards over all other organizations within delimited territories. Economies, on the other hand, have belonged to social life since the beginning of human time, at least in the sense that groups of humans created social relations by means of which they allocated scarce resources. From the invention of states onward, state agents have strongly influenced economic processes by extracting resources, making war, creating administrative structures, and intervening in exchanges and commitments among people falling under their jurisdictions.
