SOCI 3692 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Talcott Parsons, Population Density, Mecha
6 Nov 2018
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Sociology as academic discipline: must separate from other disciplines; give methodology. Functionalist (talcott parsons talked about him being this), french 3rd republic, jewish, centre-left. 2nd revolution: republic/democratics separated, napolean made 2nd empire. Works were jewish even tho secular; critiqued religion education. Economy as a division of labour; division not in economy. Demographic density + relationships ppl hold in society. As society develops, they increasingly resemble each other. Society has systems with natural movement of simple complex. Not by need to produce good to live or price mechanism of market. Simple (individuals resemble each other) vs complex societies. Cannot be understood without empirical data; want to adopt natural science methods. Laws are what transitions from mech organic. Repressive: mechanical; not for punishing crime or prevent vengeance, (cid:271)ut pay for goi(cid:374)g agai(cid:374)st so(cid:272)iety"s (cid:272)ore (cid:448)alues. Restitutive: organic; repairs situation to maintain society; criminal did sacred horror act, should be shamed. Di(cid:448)isio(cid:374) of la(cid:271)or (cid:449)here e(cid:448)eryo(cid:374)e"s doi(cid:374)g sa(cid:373)e thi(cid:374)g = causes similar thinking.
