SOC216H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mechanical And Organic Solidarity, Structural Marxism, Industrial Revolution
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Understand the distinction between the base and super structure. You have to begin with the base in order to understand super structure. Law is an instrument of the state. Able to mobilize law to make things favorable for them. Feed into the needs of capital class. Even when it looks like law isn"t working in the interest of the capital class, it actually is. Law is an instrument of the powerful class- used by them to further their goals. Witnessing industrial revolution- movement of people from farms to industries. Durkheim: fundamental shift of how we organized our society- observed a shift into a more factory based society. In primitive society, people were generalists- everyone had to know how to provide most of the things they needed to help them survive. Modern society: called solidarity organic because we have specialists- we have butchers, plumbers, clothing stores, etc. We need to rely on each other: punishment.
