CLJ 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Scopes Trial, Mechanical And Organic Solidarity, Victimless Crime
1 Feb 2016
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An instrument that invests and protect the upper class. According to marx (pg52) law is part of the super structure. But you won"t read about it in a textbook. Society held together by feelings of right and wrong: emotional sentiments that impel people toward certain actions and into righteous revulsion against others. ); (profane=everyday life; making a living etc; sacred=special moments of collective effervescence. Ritual conduct governs how people should act in the presence of the sacred or sacred objects. Mechanism by which moral sentiments are shaped into social forms. We celebrate the past; share its relevance for the present and optimism of future. Lawyers are the new priests in society: group assembled, who focus attention on some object/action, each aware that other is maintaining that focus, who share a common mood or emotion. Trial/legal examples: oj, r. king, casey anthony, gov. Blago, scopes monkey trial, swear in using bible: swear to tell truth, whole truth and nothing but truth.
