SOC323H5 Lecture Notes - Pierre Bourdieu, Class Discrimination, Power Law
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Pierre bourdieu on exceptions the jury as representative of the community. Loo"s typology on law"s power law as coercion law as symbol (ideology) law as rhetoric. For historians, and particularly for social historians, the unique and exceptional can be problematic in the search for larger patterns and meanings in the past. Yet, for us, the value of this unusual episode lies in its singularity. Multiple examples of the other urban industrialization the circus national identity black offender and black victim o o o o. Shorty"s acquittal was the exception to the rule of everyday classist and racist justice, but it did nothing to remedy injustice. Noblesse oblige" education system way to distribute privilege prior social capital predicts success are instances of low social capital people rising up which are championed sustains mythology of education. Trials remind people, if only momentarily, of social fragility, because they expose the limits of community regulation.
