SOSC 1375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Legal Culture, Critical Race Theory, Feminist Legal Theory
7 Dec 2017
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Intersectional social identity and systems of oppression v. s interdisplinary: drawing from teachings to get ideas about the law. Legality = feature of social relations rather than acting upon social life. The law = embodies the diversity of situations out of which it emerges and helps structure. Legality is embedded in and emerged out of daily activities. Legality is not sustained by the formal law of the constitution, legislative statues, court decisions, or explicit demonstrations. The social construction of law rather tha(cid:374) i(cid:373)agi(cid:374)i(cid:374)g . Concerned with: how, where and with what effect law is produced in and through commonplace social interactions within neighborhoods workplaces- families- schools- community organization. Asks : how do our social roles and statuses, our relationship, our obligations, prerogatives, and responsibilities, our identities, and our behaviour bear the imprint of law. The common place operation = makes us in daily life as legal agents actively make law, even when no formal agent is involved the formal & informal.
