SOSC 2351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: American Anthropological Association, Cultural Imperialism, Absolute Difference

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 2351
• Professor: Tanja Juric

Document Summary

Human rights thus far seen dominated by formalist approach. Looking at law itself as way to teach us about what human rights are we are looking at the legal interpretation of law instead of what the law is doing for us. Not just looking at the law but how and when the law was formed, what it reflects about our social and historical context, etc. Anthropological understanding of hr is concerned with not just what the law says but how it says it and the effect it has. Normativism/normative theory of legal science: traditional framing of legal sciences focusing on description to maintain normative objectivity to try and keep it clean and easy they step back and focus on facts. Claim: its rational and not motivated by emotion (judge are trained in such a way that they are not sucked into the stories of people)