SOSC 2350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Property Law, For Marx, State Ownership

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 2350
• Professor: Amelie Barras

Document Summary

Marx" understanding of society as a conflict theorist: does not see law as the expression of common values of a society, society was not formed or structured upon consensus, struggles are what moved our social world forward. Instead, societies are divided by class conflicts: saw capitalist societies as a split society, not harmonious. Sociological and political: unlike durkheim and weber, marx didn"t see sociology as separate from political actions, they were all evolutionary social theorists legal systems evolved with socio-eco system, marxism is both a sociological approach and a political movement. The superstructure assures the proletariat people that nothing needs to change or that nothing could be done: once they come into consciousness a revolution will come about, social class, proletariat (workers) and bourgeoisie (owners of production) Ideology (false consciousness: neo-marxists develop the idea of hegemony, state apparatus v ideological state apparatus, state apparatus- police, that the state enforces, helps maintain economic order and structure.