LY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Talcott Parsons, Order Theory, Natural And Legal Rights
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January 16: theory introduction, with a brief history of theft. Most influential understanding of society and, most common, main stream. Empricism (dominant paradime with the study of law and society. This is a direct theory between facts that your whiteness and the theory you develop to explain those events): assumes immediate relation between facts and theory. An umbrella term, associated with ideology of liberalism. Less influential in general, but influential with critics of society. Facts always socially mediated, the truth about something you need to dig beneath the original observation, must therefore understand social relations and structures underneath the facts. Maybe will look at social structures that may indorse theft. Feminism: marxism (dominant but not the only one); foucault, anti-racism, anti-colonialism. The state: many institutions that outlast any elected government, national defence, global affairs, health canada, public safety (corrections), rcmp, police services, etc. Liberal doctrine: broad term what informs social order or consensus theory.
