CLJ 200 Lecture Notes - Talcott Parsons, Social Order, Niklas Luhmann

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Clj 200 week 1 (functions of law article) Functionalism: works like the human body, all parts need to be working in order for the system to work (emile durkheim) Criticism: some consider it conservatively biased and it doesn"t allow for social change or individual agency. Mechanical solidarity: social integration of members of a society who have common values and beliefs. These common values and beliefs constitute a collective conscious that causes them to corporate. Repressive sanctions: restore social links on a symbolic level. Organic solidarity: we are all dependent on each one"s individual jobs in order to work together. Restitutive sanctions: restore social links on a material level. Talcott parsons: primary function of law is integrative. Conflict theory: society is in a perpetual state of conflict because of limited resources. Social order is maintained by domination and power rather than consensus and conformity might makes right.

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based on your additional research, should police departments employ predictive policing to reduce crime with limited resources? Be sure to carefully defend your response with reasons and consider an objection (which you respond to) before you conclude the argument.

My response: I agree that being a part of the white society is like the concept of invisible privilege that has a familiar simile in that it is analogous to an invisible weightless knapsack. This metaphor emphasizes that white privilege, even though it may not be immediately obvious, has considerable advantages and opportunities that may include a lot of benefits and freedom to life. White people benefit from the structures and institutions in which they live. In the same culture, they were trained to be oblivious to their benefits. The undeserved advantages that were created by white people made people of color feel as if they were being oppressed. It is a norm and dominating racial power to be white in this society. For instance, if a white person comes into a new neighborhood, they are fairly certain that the bulk of their neighbors are the same color as them. A person has no idea of the advantages they have until they put themselves in the shoes of other people of color. Peggy McIntosh said that white advantages don't originate from a fault in a single human or from a single individual using them. It is via an inherent fault in the system that white privilege is created. If we wish to effect systemic change, it must occur inside the system. Systems have a major impact on individual behavior in the social world. We may all do our part to hasten the end. McIntosh maintains that white people may see racism in a different way when something gives them an advantage over others, not because it benefits white people. Systemic oppressions have interactive and internalized characteristics. Teaching racism as an act rather than an overall system that advantages the dominant group makes it difficult for white people to see themselves as racists. Embedded systems can't be eliminated, the recognition of them is important. Change won't come from just being dissatisfied with the system. McIntosh's example offers many benefits for comprehending white privilege. There are many advantages to understanding white privilege as the McIntosh example demonstrates. While it is true that 'whiteness' is simply about skin color, the various definitions of race reveal that it is really much more than that. The fact that McIntosh refers to white advantage rather than non-white disadvantage when framing the discussion of race reinforces the overall idea that race should be seen in terms of advantage rather than disadvantage.

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3. Objection

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4. Conclusion

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