SOC216H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sodo, Lady Justice, Rutabaga
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Give an article and has to be 1 -2 pages. Think of how you feel and respond to it in your won creative way. Worth 5% each for 15% in total. Respond to a couple different questions and bring in more course materials. Court observation study maybe: min of 2 hours and write down all observations. Gives out 3 essay questions and 2 will be on the essay. More on second half of the course. Fundamentally important for the social structure in society. The two faces of law (ideas of law that exist) Law as a normative system (natural law) a. b. Law is a set of standard for human behaviour that reflect and express societies deepest values. Natural law mainly from europe in the 18th-19th centuries. Autonomist from societies: operates independent from society: each have separate and distinct values. Human laws can fall inline with it or challenges it. Can deal with religion, secular morality (human rights)
