SOC219H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fallacy, Parsing, Carjacking
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Gender as institutional logic (prisons, police, courts) Related to sex (embodiment) and sexuality (desire) Gender is subjective and objective process, identify however you want. Social category, people will objectify you into a social category. Emile durkheim helps us see why certain things are criminalized or decriminalized. Social solidarity: the social cohesion that binds people together into an interdependent unit {people identify with one another, society} See"s crime related to social solidarity, helps people be bound together. Crime is necessary, it is linked to the basic conditions of social life, but on this very account is useful, for the conditions to which it is bound are themselves indispensable to the normal evolution of morality and law. Has to do with morality, related to crime. Collective consciousness: is the set of shared beliefs and norms that provide the foundation for social solidarity.
