Sociology 2260A/B Lecture Notes - Lyle And Erik Menendez, Pure Sociology, Anomie
30 Apr 2013
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The way laws are designed/described; people come into contact with these laws based on their social status (ie: people with more power can break through ) Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through . The measure of law applies to social distance or space. The behaviour of law from the perspective of pure sociology . The law weighs more heavily when it comes to the powerless. Law meets or is meted out to the individual in different quantities depending on where the individual is located in the social spaces. Normative (social control) from ross and sumner. Social stratification refers to a system by which a society ranks categories of people. What is stratification? in a hierarchy, or into socioeconomic layers or strata. Therefore, stratification refers to any system of ranking used in society. Stratification is the vertical aspect of social life.
