SOC216H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Justifiable Homicide, Austin Sarat, Traffic Court
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Compare marx to durkheim: marx: class conflict under capitalism, also reflected in law. Instrumental marxism: the bourgeoisie wins because their interests are protected. Squeegee kids (interests of middle-class communters, and middle class ideas about work), vagrancy laws (interests of factory owners). Western & pettit(imprisonment policies), pager (markofa criminal record),uggen&manza (felon disenfranchisement). Capital wins, even when you think otherwise. Look at what laws are followed or avoided. Structural marxism: there is inequality internal to the system. Repeat players in the system do better than one-shotters (galanter) Instead of class division, focus on what keeps society together . Worried about changing society, from mechanical to organic solidarity. C) reinforces the conscience collective, and society. Think about social meaning and onlookers: durkheim. Law is everywhere": ways in which law becomes a regular fact of life, legalfacts, 2 ex. Legal regulations is only rarely a matter of active contemplation and calculation. Legalfacts, the signs of law, are always mediated by social action: ex.
