SOC216H5 Lecture Notes - Mechanical And Organic Solidarity, Social Fact, Social History
Document Summary
Issues with durkheim"s understanding of social law the idea that modern societies are more advanced than before discoveries are treated as evolution. Can technological advances say we are a better society do laws reflect the collective conscience. What offends the collective conscience more? (ex. Materialism: workers alienated from things they create in capitalism, not ideas but tangible things that shape history. Instrumentally rational action ex. why are you going to university: value rational for it"s own purposes the value of education, instrumentally rational to further career or position. We move from affective forms to rational forms. Self-sufficient doesn"t rely on external guide prophetic revelations of an oracle complex rules specifying how to reveal a decision but based on magic or beyond reason-based thought. Rational systematic rule-governed decisions based on clearly defined principles/ethics (rational) but no boundary law and ethics (substantive) rule-governed, self- sufficient, exists as a closed field distinctive from ethics, religion, or politics (not tainted by the law)
