Sociology 2260A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: O. J. Simpson Murder Case, Individual And Group Rights, Moral Authority

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2260A/B
• Professor: Daphne Heywood

Document Summary

1st theological or belief in supernatural causes ex. Hamlet: nothing even good or bad but thinking makes it so . Legal positivists will argue a law should be obeyed just or not. Mass social change has come about because people have come together and broke the law ex. Without legal positivism we would have chaos and anarchy. Legal positivism to sociological jurisprudence to sociology of law. Legal positivism: science of law; unquestionable; no bias. Sociological positivism: auguste comte caused by the devil. Needs to be kept separate from moral judgments. Classical theory perspective belived human beings to be slfish, but rational, free-willed but in search of pleasure with the minimum of pain. Without boundaries people are naturally inclined to peruse pleasure regardless of consequences to others (pavlich, p. 43) will be consequences in the end if you take it too far. Defines law as no more than a legitimate command from a sovereign that is obeyed by subjects.