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Explaining Punishment

Explaining Punishment. ( Or : ‘Introduction to the Sociology of Punishment’). The Marxist Tradition. Karl Marx (1818-1883) Themes : Class conflict Economic determinism Ideology. Economic determinism. ‘Base/superstructure metaphor’. Economic determinism. G Rusche & O Kirchheimer,

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Explaining Punishment

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  1. Explaining Punishment (Or: ‘Introduction to the Sociology of Punishment’)

  2. The Marxist Tradition Karl Marx (1818-1883) Themes: • Class conflict • Economic determinism • Ideology

  3. Economic determinism ‘Base/superstructure metaphor’

  4. Economic determinism G Rusche & O Kirchheimer, Punishment and Social Structure (1939) A Scull, Decarceration (1977)

  5. The Marxist Tradition Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) • Ideology • Humanistic Marxism

  6. The Marxist Tradition - Ideology Louis Althusser (1918-1990) ‘Structuralist Marxism’

  7. The Marxist Tradition - Ideology Michel Foucault (1926-1984) Discipline and Punish (1977) ‘Post-structuralism’

  8. The Marxist Tradition - Ideology Stuart Hall ‘Drifting Into a Law and Order Society’ (1980)

  9. The Durkheimian Tradition Émile Durkheim (1858-1917) Theme: Collective sentiments in society’s culture

  10. The Durkheimian Tradition Émile Durkheim (1858-1917) ‘Conscience collective’

  11. Max Weber (1864-1920) Themes: • Interaction of Culture and Economy The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1904-5)

  12. Max Weber (1864-1920) Themes: • Interaction of Culture and Economy • Legitimacy

  13. Weber’s 3 types of legitimation: • Traditional authority • Charismatic authority • Legal authority

  14. Bureaucratic administrative form • Efficiency & rationality • Standardisation • Routine handling of ‘cases’ - impersonal • Rule-governed (regulated) • Records & reports

  15. Radical Pluralist Account • Neither economics nor ideology/culture ‘basic’ • Interaction of material & ideological factors • Plurality of interest groups including classes • State not a fully ‘honest broker’ between groups

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