SOC 1500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Community Ownership, Restorative Justice, Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Andrew Hathaway

Document Summary

Sees criminal behaviour as caused by economic inequality, and criminal law defined by those in power. Karl marx: early career as a journalist, focussed on economic conditions under capitalism, society is product of economic production. Owner-worker, worker-worker: class is a power relationship. Believed that societies change through slow evolution or sudden violence because of contradictions or conflicts present in a society. If social conflicts aren"t resolved they tend to destabilize society, leading to social change. There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases in wealth without diminishing its misery, and increases in crime even more than its numbers . Portrayed crime as a function of social demoralization: a collapse of people"s humanity reflecting a decline in society. The brutality of the capitalist system turns workers into animal-like creatures: without a will of their own.