CRIM 104 Lecture Notes - Georg Simmel
24 Feb 2014
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Who marx influenced: simmel, bonger, vold, turk, chambliss, quinney, platt, taylor, walton, young. Inside: positive, attraction, up, light, good, god, negative, repulsion, outside, down, dark, evil, the devil. Dialectical/ historical materialism: slave owners slaves, landlords serfs, capitalists workers, dialectical pairs polar opposites, depends upon each other for their existence, contradictory (opposing) interests, class struggle leads to change in socio economic forms. Legal domination: belief that existing laws are fair and rational, also referred to as rational legal authority, belief in legitimacy of laws and those who are enforcing them, those who create and enforce laws are also bound by them, according to weber, rational legal authority primarily exists in modern western society. William chambliss: criminal label as product of social conflict, modern society creates conflict, conflict creates formal institutions, formal institutions sanction violation of social norms, more complex societies actually lead to more rule enforcement, social stratification creates need for dominant groups to enforce norms of conduct.
