Sociology 2260A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Eurocentrism, Legal Culture
30 Apr 2013
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In traditional societies, many laws are morally based and tied to the culture and religion (different value systems people have) People act relative, and so they make laws relative to the cultural meanings given to them. Culture is the symbolic aspect of social life values, ideology, morality, and law have a symbolic aspect of this kind. Culture has an existence of its own, apart from the way people experience it. It appears in every social setting, and it varies in quantity and style from one place to the next . It is possible to predict and explain the behaviour of culture of every kind . Where culture is sparse so is law; where it is rich, law flourishes. Across societies the least culture is found among tribal people. On the other hand if a society is literate, if it many subcultures, beliefs, monuments, or large buildings technology science it has law.
