LY100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Public Space, House Rule, English Law
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~ way of understanding people"s relationship to law and legal categories. ~ focus is not on rules but shared social understanding about how things work - taken for granted assumptions that shape interactions, not necessarily rational or conscious. ~ more than just subjective or individual beliefs. ~ people"s social position/identity affects but does not determine these shared understandings. ~ authors see geography as the use of space. ~ what goes where , how does it have social effects. ~ zoning, traffic laws, law shapes how we can or can"t use space. Public - work/economy, gov. /state , norms: fairness, equality, impartiality. Private - family/home, business/economy dependence, norms: exclusion, partiality. The world of work vs. the world of home, gov. and state (public sphere) vs. market (private sphere) ~ no charter right to privacy - however there is security of the person, freedom of speech. Private property - right to keep people out of your home.
