SOC216H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Structural Marxism, Factory Acts, Squeegee
22 Feb 2019
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Week 4: major theories, compare marx to durkheim, marx: class conflict under capitalism, also reflected in law, instrumental marxism: the bourgeoisie wins because their interests are protected, look at what laws are made. Examples: squeegee kids (interests of middl e class commuters, and middle class ideas about work), vagrancy laws (interests of factory owners): law creates more inequality, eg. Western & pettit (imprisonment policies), pager (mark of a criminal re cord), duggen & manzo (felon disenfranchisement): capital wins, even when you think otherwise, look at what laws are followed or avoided. : english factory acts: structural marxism: there is inequality internal to the system ix. Repeat players in the system do better than one shotters (galanter) 2. Major theories & the sociology of law: durkheim instead of class division, focus on what keeps society together xi. Example: punishment: a) expression of the conscience collective, often violent and passionate, reinforces the conscience collective, and society.
