SOC216H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bourgeoisie, Luigi, Proletariat
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Why should we read marx: go to a criminal court. Who are the lawyers: then go to a civil court. Marx viewed an uneasy relationship between 2 types of society. The bourgeoisie and the proletariat: the bourgeoisie is the working class determine what law looks, the proletariat is the private owners like. The material of our society is what forms our modern day society. The base will effect the superstructure this is where law is. The ways in which law is misbehaving in ways marx didn"t predict: english factory acts. Capitalism is also a set of ideas, including ideas about the value of work, and this can be expressed through law: bourgeois. Talk about the material and the symbolic approach. The needs of the capital class which rule, and then they get the law to. They made it a crime to be unemployed, this is the prime example of the capitalistic individuals controlling the law.
