CRM 1300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Social Disorganization Theory, Left Realism, Rulemaking
18 Dec 2017
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Opposes the idea that history and social change reflect idealist factors like god. Based on the concept that although humans make their own history, they do not chose it. Modes of production: slave, primitive communal, feudal, asiatic, capitalist, socialist, communist. Marx saw state as: a product of society at a certain level of development, an institution that stands above society. The state thus has a class character: in capitalist society, the state is typically used as a weapon or instrument manipulated by the capitalist class. Law is a crucial component of the state apparatus: in class society, law is endowed with several functions, 1. Law tends to reflect and remote the interest of the dominant class in private property. Does so by promoting and protecting all private property: 2. Law operates as a central mechanism of bourgeois ideology. Marx"s described the process of criminalization as a violation by the state of some natural or inalienable human rights.
