SOCI-224 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Industrial Revolution, Tax Deduction, Full-Size Car
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Chapter 2: the origins and role of law in society. Can"t have laws unless you have a state (an entity with a government) since the government creates the laws. In hunter-gatherer societies there were norms, the proper way to conduct yourself in society. Everyone relies on everyone else to work together and survive, so when conflict arises, both the norms and desires in that group are to end that conflict as fast as possible. Kin or self redress advisors, the injured party confronts the party that caused the injury/conflict. What the opposing group could due to solve the injustice. Certain individuals who have the respect by everyone in the group, whose believed to be particularly knowledgeable about the parties. Healing the harm that has arising (to the group as a whole). This is how conflict was treated and addressed. Leansky: *hunter/gatherer- 500,000 years ago-50,000, *pastoral: human kind has domesticated to an extent herd animals.
