SOC 1500 Lecture 3: SOC1500Week2.docx
20 Feb 2015
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Individual life experiences are shaped by the society in which we live and the general categories in which we fall: c. wright mills says the sociological imagination means understanding society by having a grasp of the interplay of social structure and individuals, complexity = simplicity is more, to get a closer look you have to take a step back (cid:224) contradictory but you need to step back to get a context, random events are given meaning. Division of law: substantive: rights and obligations i. e. criminal law states what types of conduct are prohibited, procedural: sets out the methods to enforce these rights and duties, criminal law: comes into existence when the state declares itself to be the injured party for certain types of infarctions, objective legalist definition of crime:
