SOC216H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Occupy Movement, Dependent And Independent Variables, Social Change
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Race integration of black and white law changes. Gender feminist movement law changes. Objectives of lecture: discuss relationship between social and legal change. Impact of change in society on change in law. Impact of change in law on change in society: effectiveness of law and assessing legal impact, law and social movements (mccann, discussion: gay rights and occupy movements and law. Causal relationships in the social sciences: complex relationship between legal and social change two-way or reciprocal relationship, causal relationships between two variables, independent variable: influences dependent, dependent variable: influenced by independent. How does society change law: e. g. change from mechanic to organic solidarity changed law, early theorists were interested in grand theory : How and why broad social changes produce changes in nature of legal system, legal reasoning and other fundamental dimensions of law: durkheim, weber and marx. Social change and specific legal developments: e. g.
