Sociology 2260A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Amish, Eye For An Eye, Mechanical And Organic Solidarity

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2260A/B
• Professor: Lawrence Burns

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Next test we can use course pack and write shit in the margins. Overview: social facts, law as a measure of social solidarity, criminal law. Social organization or solidarity is key to the legal system: 2 types organic and solidarity- know both. Emile durkheim (1858-1917: born in epinel, france (near strasbourg, his division of labour in society (1893) contains much of his writing on law including our reading: forms of social solidarity . Social solidary and something about division of labour. How social facts determine our actions and how we conceptualize our world. Social facts = ways of acting, thinking, and feeling, external to the individual, and endowed with the power of coercion, by reason of which they control him (pavlich, 74) E. g. , family, kinship, division of labour, religion magic, ritual, crime and suicide rates. Out of our control and may constrain us. Law is dependent of society which comes first.