SOC216H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: High School Dropouts, Habitual Offender, Benzene
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Soc216 january 12, 2016 marxist approach. Go to a civil court, go to a small claims court . Marx viewed society as primarily an uneasy relationship between two groups with incompatible economic interests: the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Orientation is to understand the material nature of our society, and it shapes all the non-material aspects of our society. Needs of capital dictate law (base superstructure: (e. g. chambliss) In those instances, where the state tries to regulate capital, capitalists find ways to avoid it: (e. g. english factory acts) Capitalism is also a set of ideas, including ideas about the value of work, and this can be expressed through law (though not only: (e. g. bourgeois) Needs of the capitalist class determines what law will look like because law will represent their interests. Willia(cid:373) cha(cid:373)(cid:271)liss: (cid:862)a so(cid:272)iologi(cid:272)al a(cid:374)al(cid:455)sis of the la(cid:449) of (cid:448)agra(cid:374)(cid:272)(cid:455)(cid:863) (cid:894) o(cid:272)ial.
