LAWS 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Quran, Social Control
9 Dec 2015
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Protect the prevailing legal system (conservative dimension) Regulates the political system by modulating relations of power (establishes authority) Preserves order and regulates relationships of power. Definition of power: having the possibility to influence others, limit what they can do, can make exceptions to the rules to suit themselves better. Regulates the use and definition of spaces & boundaries (private, public, military, indigenous) and relationships (interpersonal, sexual, marital, professional, business, political) Customs (elders, figures of authority moral/sacred, homogenous society, proximity of interests, kinship ties) Modern industrial societies: mobile social positions associated with salary work, and common interests challenged by pluralism (the good life, cultures, religion, and beliefs) Great diversity among us which calls for a more robust and complex system. Definition of legal culture: the evolving relationship between culture and its need for rules. The use of ideas in law to regulate behaviours: equality (or elitism, freedom (or collectivism, resource distributions (formal equality or pyramidal distribution)
