SOC326H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Whatever Works, Individualism, Leviathan
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Ideas about the police and policing tend to rest on two contradictory aspects of police work: use of force, morality/social values. Authors (cid:271)elie(cid:448)es goi(cid:374)g (cid:271)a(cid:272)k to we(cid:271)er a(cid:374)d durkhei(cid:373)"s work can clarify some contemporary problems in this regard. Durkheim: social solidarity + social facts + work + culture: the division of labor in society, rules of sociological method, suicide, the elementary forms of religious life. The idea of policing has been framed on community + morals + values. The state is (cid:374)eeded & poli(cid:272)e as pu(cid:271)li(cid:272) a(cid:272)tors = to e(cid:374)sure ppl do(cid:374)"t split apart i(cid:374) diff dire(cid:272) Weber: ppl are aware of their rights + skeptical abt state power + know what they want. Terpstra (2011) gives some nice context himself. Known for his work on bureaucracy + research methods (amongst other things!: sees society going from traditional charismatic - bureaucratic. Sees police function as serving to uphold the power of the state: legitimized monopoly on use of force.
