SOSC 1375 Lecture 1: Lecture 1 Introduction To Socio-Legal Studies
24 Nov 2017
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Socio-legal studies is interested in the relationship of law to society both in the sense of how values underlie existing law, and in how law acts to shape social interactions and social change. Law is a socially embedded institution and the letter of the law may be much less interesting th existence. Justice; justice imbalance; justice must find the middle line the balance in between; justice w. Purity; represents the better half how social norms and nge g than the reasons for its e weighs. Doxa: unexamined beliefs; dominate to a society (ex. The woman in question was overidden by the judges dominate doxa making men superio. Substantive law procedural law (statute law and (rules) Substantive law - consists of all laws that set out the rights and obligations of persons. Procedural law - outlines the steps and procedures involved in protecting and enforcing the rig. Substantive law, i. e. the rules of court, etc.
