Uploaded May 2024 | Updated September 2026, 25 minutes ago
In this lesson we’ll begin to look at how the authoritarian state reinforces, extends, and maintains its newly acquired power. As we have seen previously, the state uses a mixture coercion, persuasion, and consent to control its citizens. In this film we focus on coercion, the state’s formal social control of the individual. Formal social control can be divided into the legal coercion of new laws, institutions and people and the coercive force of a secret police, surveillance, and prisons.
Another in the series of short films introducing the subject of modern authoritarian states for students of the IB Diploma.
In this lesson we’ll begin to look at how the authoritarian state reinforces, extends, and maintains its newly acquired power. As we have seen previously, the state uses a mixture coercion, persuasion, and consent to control its citizens. In this film we focus on coercion, the state’s formal social control of the individual. Formal social control can be divided into the legal coercion of new laws, institutions and people and the coercive force of a secret police, surveillance, and prisons.
Another in the series of short films introducing the subject of modern authoritarian states for students of the IB Diploma.
