SOC216H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Feudalism, Bourgeoisie, The Prime Mover
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Soc216 week 3; marxism, the economy and the law and society. Sooner or later, legal systems shape gets bent in the direction of their society. Civil law provides legal infrastructure for manufacturing, the execution of contracts, investments and financial transactions of all kinds. Civil law also confides social relations grounded in the capitalist structure. In criminal law, it confides things that protect private property like theft. Because the current division between criminal and noncriminal is built into the capitalist structure. Capitalist law does not treat unsafe working conditions as violent because our ideas of violence and crime read off the face of capitalism. In england and france from the period of 1100-1800. It was transformed through strategic alliances between the new commercial bourgeoisie, monarchs who benefited from tax revenues on the budding commerce, and lawyers who for a price provided both technical expertise and philosophical justification for legal change. Designed to deal with a scarcity of workers and skyrocketing wages.
