SOSC 1375 Lecture Notes - History Of The Southern United States, Social Change
13 Feb 2013
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Law is not made by legislatures but produced through the people, social relations of people over long period of time. Implication from this is that social reform makes bad law. Customary norms haven"t caught up to what the law is actually intending to do. Laws around prostitution, people still seek out sex workers- he would state that its still acceptable by society. Would slavery been repealed if left up to the social norms of an antebellum south? it worked up to the benefit of economic benefit. The customary norms didn"t want to see that change because they justified slavery since it helped economy to make money. Von savigny: law is fashioned according to the society. Law is both dependent and independent variable in social change. Changes to law can result from changes in social conditions, knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, technology, etc. Liberalization of ____: matrimonial causes act of 1857. No federal divorce law in canada before 1968.
