SOSC 2350 Lecture Notes - Influence Peddling, Neoliberalism, Social Change
28 Nov 2012
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Use your tas to clarify the terms; however don"t get them to make up your study notes. If you cannot find a definition within your terms, then look at other resources in order to determine it for yourself. This can be as gay marriage, women"s rights, etc. What causes social change: there"s a multitude of interdependent factors. Technology, conflict, political and economic factors, racial or social conflict, etc. Marxism: class conflict and organization: it is used as a weapon to changing the laws, it can also recognize and create more just working conditions and in term society, also see chambliss article re: vagrancy laws. People leaving rural environments and moving to industrial cities. Durkheim law reflects complexities of society, because law reflects society, there might be a way that law can be used in harbouring that change: also see durkheim"s types of legitimate authority . Other theorists/ theories: myth of equality.
