SOC216H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Making Money, Corporatization, Law School Admission Test
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This shows that many prime minister were lawyers and it shows that there is a certain power that comes with practicing law. Rate of growth is faster than that of physicians and surgeons. Themes: law schools as transformative institution, law schools as social reproduction. Professional socialization entry and access to law school: reproduction of social class and advantage. Reproduction of social class and advantages: learning to think like a lawyer . Going to law school: civil law (quebec) or common law (rest of canada) (22 schools in total) Articling: practice being a lawyer, have a senior lawyer to work for which is articling, recent crisis. In 2008, 5. 8% of applicants failed to secure an articling position within their first year of eligibility. Getting in to law school: growth of the profession and increasing competition for entry. 6,800 canadian students wrote lsat in 2001-2 (compared to 117,567.
