LAWS 1000 Lecture 2: How We Know The Law Part 1.docx
1 Oct 2014
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*see e-mail sent out for more information on pass workshops* We can"t begin understand the law without theories and framework that attempt to explain it. There are some things that we think are law, but that really aren"t (ex: our prime. Law is like a mirror of the society it is found in (it mirror"s society"s issues, values, culture, etc. ) When something goes wrong, one of the first responses is that a law should be made to ensure it doesn"t happen again (ex: the issue of pit-bull biting: law and society: Relying on customs in a heterogeneous society doesn"t work because there are many competing customs. Just because a society doesn"t have the same type of laws as another, doesn"t mean they don"t have any at all. What types of societies do we think of when we think. Sociologists are interested in how law is used to maintain order and when order is disrupted.
