CLJ 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Rodney King, Terry White, Buttocks

• School: UIC
• Department: Criminology, Law, and Justice
• Course: CLJ 200
• Professor: Greg Matoesian

Document Summary

View of social order (how are societies organized): Natural science model; single cause and effect; objective evidence used to develop causal laws. Marx: historical materialism; knowledge used to bring about social change. Weber: historicism; natural and social sciences different; no general laws possible; meaning to participants; multicausality built up from analysis of concrete cases. Durkheim:repressive/restitutive; change in law correlates with change from simple to complex society. Weber: capitalism and formal legal rationality feed off each other; relationship reciprocal (elective affinity). Post-modern and micro approaches to law and society. No ultimate knowledge or reality or truth. No more metanarratives like marx, durk and weber. Modern world has ended; we are now in the post-modern world (some claim late modernity or late capitalism) End of the enlightenment and romantic thinkers who believe in reason and science. Postmodernist thinkers challenge the belief that we can come up with truth through reason and that we can construct a better world (hey sounds like weber!)