SOSC 1375 Lecture 8: lecture 1
14 Jan 2019
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Sometimes appears as a magisterial, remote and transcendent force governing human affairs from some high and distant plane. We rarely sense the presence or the operation of the law. We follow so blindly that often all laws become natural. Some material laws include court house, parking meters; marriage. Book describes how americans interpret and make sense of the law. Rather than external apparatus acting upon social life. Our analysis of commonplace legality builds on a tradition of research on the social construction of law. Law and society tradition provides abundant evidence of law"s variable. Socio-legal investigations have focused on routine practices in specific organisational settings. In some we conceive that legality is a emergent structure of social life that manifests itself in diverse places, including but not limited to formal institutional settings. Both interpretive frame work and a set of resources in which the social world is consisted.
