LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - E. Adamson Hoebel, Mechanical And Organic Solidarity, System On A Chip
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The "law of the land" confronts the "custom of the sea" Law exists to order our lives & gives stability. Assumption: law essential to maintenance ( existence ) of soc. - must be min. He says a society can"t work without law. In primitive societies (sic) these law-jobs are fulfilled to some degree (hoebe; suggests ours is the best) Views all soc. through same lens (enthnocentric) Every society has to accomplish these functions in some way. Difference between custom and convention and law based on different type of authority. Custom and conventions may provide pressure but the law has teeth and conventions may not. Law must be relatively flexible (how much?) Power is transpersonalized *** (power it put somewhere else, transferred) Authority is legitimate domination: traditional/ customary, tribal chief, council of elders, monarchy, irrational , personality of leader, relatively unstable, i. e. reil, hitler, charismatic, legal/rational, system of offices , expertise and bureaucracy, predictable rules, stability.
