| has gloss | eng: __NOTOC__ The State (German: Der Staat) is a book by German sociologist Franz Oppenheimer first published in Germany in 1908. Oppenheimer wrote the book in Frankfurt am Main during 1907, as a fragment of the four-volume System of Sociology, an intended interpretative framework for the understanding of social evolution on which he laboured from the 1890s until the end of his life. The work summarizes Oppenheimer's general theory on the origin, development and future transformation of the State. According to the theory of conquest, the state comes into being through war and conquest, a consequence of which is the establishment of social classes; the dominant conquerors and the subordinate conquered. This, in turn, leads to the emergence of a political system to consolidate the power of the conquerors, to perpetuate and regulate class divisions. |
