SOC216H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Corporatization, Socratic Method
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What do lawyers have to do with the sociology of law: we have particular unfavorable notions of lawyers, lawyers are so important in our society that we get uncomfortable by it. If you need to access law without a lawyer. Lawyers are not just the gatekeepers to law, they write our laws, reject laws, teach our laws, etc. Weber: the legal profession is indispensable to the legal order as we know it in modern. Legal profession is growing- number of lawyers per capita is increasing; why: increase in higher education, explicit barriers to entry in the field, more people applying to go to law school as well. On average, an individual who gets accepted to law school and becomes a lawyer tends to come from a background with more educated parents and from a higher ses. Becoming a lawyer in canada: two legal systems in canada: civil law (quebec) and common law (rest of.
