LAWS 3908 Study Guide - Final Guide: The Star-Spangled Banner, Solidarity, Mechanical And Organic Solidarity

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Law
• Course: LAWS 3908
• Professor: Nicholas Lamb

Document Summary

The constituted individual, social solidarity, and the necessity of crime in society. Questions to consider for the rest of the lecture: I(cid:374)t(cid:396)odu(cid:272)i(cid:374)g du(cid:396)khei(cid:373)(cid:859)s so(cid:272)iolog(cid:455) of la(cid:449: crime is normal, universal, and necessary function in all societies, structural functionalist and consensus-based approach. Du(cid:396)khei(cid:373)(cid:859)s (cid:272)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e of o(cid:272)iet(cid:455: durkheim was mostly concerned with social solidarity how society is held together, rejected methodological individualism. We do (cid:374)ot (cid:272)o(cid:374)de(cid:373)(cid:374) it (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause it is a (cid:272)(cid:396)i(cid:373)e, (cid:271)ut it is a (cid:272)(cid:396)i(cid:373)e (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause (cid:449)e (cid:272)o(cid:374)de(cid:373)(cid:374) it. (cid:859) In earlier societies, priests were granted exclusive authority to decide what was sacred and what was not: the communal religious sense of property eventually transformed into individual private property rights with the rising individualization of modern societies. Individual rights and private property are seen as combining to weaken sacred and religious bonds that lay at the heart of earlier understandings of communal property.