LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Pasteurization, Informal Social Control, Child Pornography
24 Dec 2016
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Morality and the law between guilty and innocent. Morality is understood as a judgment between good and bad. A moral judgment is distinctive from a legal judgment distinguishes smaller, less completely organized contexts societies with a relatively low. There remains significant overlap between moral and legal judgments. The degree of homogeneity of a morality in a society tends to be greater in division of labor. The opposite is also true; one tends to see unified moral positions in larger solidities where there is a greater division of labor. In smaller societies with a relatively low division of labor, we see thicker moral agreement on social terms, whereas in larger societies we tend to see a thinner moral agreement. Thin agreement refers to agreement on more general principles (torture is bad) Legal principles put up against multiple moral divisions can lead to a more well-defined and proper law. The law is not suited to work equally in every social space.
