CRIM 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Franco-Prussian War, Critical Criminology, Jock Young

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 104
• Professor: Barry Cartwright

Document Summary

For marx, it was the time of the industrial revolution. Expropriation and/or dispossession through eviction and enclosure. Steam engines, cotton jenny, rolling mills, blast furnaces replacing skilled labour. All resulted in impoverished working class surplus labour pool. Not a sociologist and didn"t write much about crime. Still most widely cited political philosopher in social sciences as recently as the 1980s. Wrote das capital and the communist manifesto. Influential in worker"s movements and movements and ideas re: socialism and communism. Dialectical pairs how things tend to be organized in opposite pairs. Workers: dialectical pairs polar opposites, depend on each other for their existence, contradictory (opposing interests, class struggle leads to change in socio economic forms. Justice for the rich, jail for the poor. Ethics and the sociology of morals by emile durkheim. The socio-historical backdrop: durkheim was born in 1858, 10 years after the parisian revolution of. Moral order more fundamental then the economic order.