The Military Factor in Social Change Vol. 1Transaction Publishers |
Obsah
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Societal Types | 29 |
Armies Societies and Total War | 71 |
The State as Revolution | 117 |
The End of History? | 153 |
The Widening Circle | 195 |
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activities administrative allegiance army Attika authority autonomous become behaviors and beliefs centralized government century citizens civil colonial compact affiliations conflict conscription corporate group crisis-inducing events cultural custom defense dominant duties economic effect emergence Émile Durkheim equality existence external force foreign freedom freestanding hierarchies functions guild household human idea identity indi individual rights institutions integrity intermediate entities kinship society leaders lives loyalty mandataries mass mass media means membership ment military monism Niccolò Machiavelli notables officials organization pact peace phratri phyle political society population prescriptive law privileges provincial society provincial to political Prussia religious responsibility revolution role ruling circle sense Sicilians Sicily social enclosures social order sovereign sovereignty Stand society status structure struggle subsidiary groups symbols tend territorial tion total war town traditional transformation transition from provincial undermined unity vidual village violence war band warrior chief wars
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Strana 14 - The fully developed bureaucratic mechanism compares with other organizations exactly as does the machine with the nonmechanical modes of production. Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of the files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs — these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration, and especially in its monocratic form.
Strana 10 - Ultimately, one can define the modern state sociologically only in terms of the specific means peculiar to it, as to every political association, namely, the use of physical force. "Every state is founded on force," said Trotsky at Brest-Litovsk.