SOCI 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Professional Ethics, Ultimate Power, Class Conflict

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 300
• Professor: Valerie De Courville Nicol

Document Summary

Professional ethics good control is achieved through individual self-discipline and autonomy. and through a balance between the power of the state, secondary(civil) society and the individuals (primary groups(families,)) at the bottom. Idea: find balance between three levels but state is ultimate power. Anomie durkeim says lack of adequate norms, rules. Key area where regulation is lacking: professional associations. Socialists argue that we need a better control over economic life and others, classical economists on the contrary we need leave economy alone. Durkheim argues that both of these reje(cid:272)t (cid:373)oral regulatio(cid:374) that he ad(cid:448)o(cid:272)ates. He sa(cid:455)s (cid:449)e do(cid:374)"t (cid:374)eed (cid:272)o(cid:373)plete overthrow, we need better regulation and better institutions. Class conflict has to due with lack of regulation. We need to further develop in professional associations with each member would know their obligations and their rights. Need for a system of professional ethics to be further developed. Guilds association of workers based on different occupations/trades.