CRM/LAW C7 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sociological Perspectives, Puritans, Honda Integra
22 Feb 2018
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Max weber (born 1864) wanted to understand how the world changed from hierarchical world of lords & peasants mostly concerned with afterlife to the current. These changes meant people were secure in certain binding rules. How was decision making process employed to either accelerate or retard modernization (what he called rationalization) Rational legal procedures rely on logic; non-rational on mysticism, faith, or superstition. Emile durkheim (born 1858) studied the effects of the division of labor on social solidarity (the degree to which people felt an emotional sense of belonging to a group) When collective conscience becomes weaker there is a lessening of moral outrage leading to more humanitarian forms of justice. Both weber & durkheim were consensus sociologists (theorists) studying how society is structured to maintain stability versus conflict theorists society is composed of individuals & groups with sharply different interests and is characterized by conflict & dissent. Karl marx (born 1888) + engels ascribe to conflict views.
