SOC216H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Agrarian Society, Industrial Revolution
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To believe in marxists law you have to know (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) For durkheim society can only see look everything is changing, but. Durkheim: how are we all surviving, its because we all share something, we have a shared framework. Marx is watching the industrial revolution and thinks that bad things are happening. Agrarian society: you eat what you grow. Sources of solidarity in modern society: law. In modern society how do we know that we share stuff, well law shows us that because we agree on shared norms. There is no natural crime, crimes have been defines, it is only a crime because it was stated in law that it was a crime. Fr marx crime is only a reflection of the base, law only reflect the capitalist interest, but durkheim is saying that a crime is that. For durkheim, the entire premise of it is that we all share norm.
