CRM 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Dominant Ideology, Class Conflict, Economic System
24 Aug 2018
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Feb 26
Jail Tour
• Better socioeconomic position = quicker death like guillotine
• Hot/Cold water punishment
• Hanging on door
• Stretching body
• Naked on floor for 23 hours in fully dark room
• Varieties of ages (7 year old was the youngest)
• Diseases, bad hygiene caused death
• Weren’t allowed to use toilet even though they had one
• Silence – No communication and always guarded by guards
(round shape cells so guard can hear prisoners)
• Hanging
• False accusations (not enough evidence for Patrick James Wallen)
• There are still a lot of human rights violations going on today
• MAKE REFERENCE TO WALBY AND PICHE ARTICLE **HALF
THE GRADE IMPORTANT**
Marxism
Capitalism
Crime
State Control
Context of Marxist Thought
He was concerned for poverty and industries…
Personal:
• Marginal social location (poverty) 1818-1883
Document Summary
Context of marxist thought (e was concerned for poverty and industries . Social: capitalism: industrial revolution, urbanization (decay, disease) . Resulting poverty, unemployment, disregard and disadvantage for workers. They were only seen as working machines: constructed fear of the dangerous classes. The elites controlled the workers to keep them at lower class. Intellectual: enlightenment (he emphasizes humanistic view, science & statistics (logic) Historical materialism: method of inquiry, history from material base. Capitalism: focuses on production , economic system = exploitative against workers, mode of production = means & relations of production (private ownership; profit) Superstructure: church, family, media, state, school, ideology. They are all made to practice us to being obedient for the work. Ideology: dominant ideology legitimates capitalism (media is controlled, state & criminal justice system operate in the interest of capital, political & legal systems regulate threats to capitalism operate, way of realizing hegemony (cid:523)ruling class" world view(cid:524)
