Topics of Discussion
Durkheim begins to discuss the context of crime and the bond of social solidarity. On page 33, he states, "Even where the criminal act is certainly harmful to society, the degree of damage it causes is far from being regularly in proportion to the intensity of repression it incurs. In the penal law of most civilized peoples murer is universally regarded as the greatest of crimes. Yet an economic crisis, a crash on the stock market, even a bankruptcy, can disorganize the the body social much more seriously than the isolated case of homicide..." What is the greatest evil? and can crime ever be rid of?
Durkheim also states on the division of labor, "It is because the division of labor is accompanied by an increase in fatigue that man is constrained to seek after, as a compensatory increase, those goods of civilization that otherwise would present no interest for him" (15). Do you agree? After our readings on Marx and our discussions of capitalism and the proletariat, and commodity fetishism, is it the labor or the commodity that we find ourselves occupied with our goods?
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