CRIM 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mechanical And Organic Solidarity, Social Fact, Social Forces

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 104
• Professor: Barry Cartwright

Document Summary

Norms and expectations based on shared values interests. Laws and social istitutions designed to integrate and regulate social behavior. Norms and expectations not shared but rather imposed upon us. Laws and social institutions designed to protect intestes of those with money and power. Not a so(cid:272)iologist a(cid:374)d did(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:449)(cid:396)ite (cid:373)u(cid:272)h a(cid:271)out (cid:272)(cid:396)i(cid:373)e. Still most widely cited political philosopher in social sciences as recently as the 1980s. Wrote das capital and the communist manifesto. I(cid:374)flue(cid:374)tial i(cid:374) (cid:449)o(cid:396)ke(cid:396)(cid:859)s (cid:373)o(cid:448)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts a(cid:374)d ideas re:socialism and communism. Dialectical and historical materialism: slave owners, landlords. Depends upon each other for their existence. Class struggle leads to change in socio-economic forms. Basic position of marxist thought (cid:862)capitalis(cid:373) is a(cid:374) e(cid:454)ploitati(cid:448)e and alienating social order in which inequality is institutionalized (cid:271)(cid:455) a(cid:374) elite (cid:396)uli(cid:374)g (cid:272)lass(cid:863) (cid:862) tate se(cid:396)(cid:448)es the i(cid:374)te(cid:396)ests of the (cid:396)uli(cid:374)g (cid:272)lass(cid:863) The la(cid:449)s a(cid:396)e a (cid:862)(cid:373)(cid:455)stif(cid:455)i(cid:374)g(cid:863) fo(cid:396)(cid:272)e, (cid:373)aski(cid:374)g the e(cid:454)ploitati(cid:448)e (cid:374)atu(cid:396)e of (cid:272)apitalis(cid:373) Wrote the rules of sociological method and suidcide a study in sociology.