CRIM 104 Lecture Notes - Class Conflict, Due Process, Georg Simmel
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For marx, it was the time of the industrial revolution. Steam engines, cotton jenny, rolling mills, blast furnaces replacing skilled labour. All resulted in impoverished working class surplus labour pool. Still most widely cited political philosopher in social sciences as recently as the 1980s. Not a sociologist, and didn"t write much about crime. Wrote das capital and the communist manifesto. Influential in worker"s movements and ideas re: socialism and communism. Depend upon each other for their existence. Class struggle leads to change in socioeconomic forms. Durkheim was born in 1858, 10 years after the parisian revolution of 1848; 12 years before the. After the french revolution of 1789; by 1875, france was going through its third incarnation, as. Time of the industrial revolution, and the rise of socialism and communism. Moral order more fundamental than economic order. Moral order or moral consensus would create a unified social order. Influence of saint-simon, who talked extensively about importance of moral order.