CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nudity, Panopticism, Michel Foucault
23 Sep 2016
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Small scale society and the origin of law. Members were expected to have lifelong interactions with one another this discouraged quarrelling. Always had mutual agreement to what the problem was. Public shaming, temporary expulsion (taken away from community then brought back), some killings also (but kept in check). Hunt, gather then do it all over again the next day. There were not people who had and didn"t have, everyone had because they shared everything with everyone. All had about the same amount of belongings. Influence was determined by personal attributes (wisdom), not by accumulation of goods. When farming and agriculture started, the mutual interdependence began to diminish. This is when surplus (some have more than others) came to the surface. The ownership of private property starts to define itself. Some members could generate more than others (surplus). Sharing society started falling apart, didn"t feel like they had to share what they grew/livestock with anyone else anymore. (milk, crops, etc.
