SOCI 1002H Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Folk Devil, Welfare Fraud, White Privilege
14 Jun 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Lecture 11: Making Sociology Relevant
The Social and Social Facts:
• The Social:
• State
• Welfarism and Neoliberalism
• Family
• SKIP, LAT, Created, Nuclear, Transnational
• Governance
• Punishment, Policing, Moral Regulation
Review of Key Ideas:
• Structural functionalism: division of labour is central to how societies work and how
social relations are organized
• Critical Theory: Capitalism governed by profit produced through class structure
• Competition, scarcity, inequality
• Not everyone wins… fewer people win
Mistake only a sociologist could make:
• Social engineering: fixing the ‘other’
• Ex. the race problem: apartheid
• Creation of utopias: over-determining the revolution
• Shackled to the state
Apartheid as Applied Sociology (1945):
• Scientific analysis of the race problem in South Africa
• Solution: state to force segregation into racial communities
• Unequal allocation of resources based on developmental stage
• Critique: imperialist response to protect white privilege
What are the two key functions of the capitalist state:
• Accumulation (of wealth)
• Taxation limits
• Free trade
• Precarious employment
• Deregulated markets
• Manage inequalities and impacts of class-system
• Criminalization poverty
• Welfare fraud
• Get a job policing
• Over-incarceration
• Driving while Black
Neoliberalism and Globalization:
• Early industrial society
• Market crash
• Great Depression
• Mass unemployment
• Civil unrest
• Folk devil: rise of communism
• Welfare State (1950s-1970s)
find more resources at oneclass.com
find more resources at oneclass.com
