LAWS 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Verdict, Robocall, Universal Law

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Exam study guide law (topics key in lectures) Topics to look up: weber"s definition of law. 1. pressure or threats must be external from some other source. 3. those who enforce these must have official role to enforce the law: law is therefore distinguished from customs and conventions. Customs are rules in definite situations of relatively long duration and are observed without deliberation and without thinking . There is no sense of duty or obligation to follow them(references customs as rules of conduct for defined situations that are of long duration observed without deliberation or thinking. ) Conventions are rules that involve a sense of duty and obligation. Pressure to conform is exerted through disapproval on those who do not conform. Lack specialized personnel to instrumentalize coercive force. (references conventions as rules for conduct that there is a sense of duty and obligation to follow or comply. Webber states conventions as different from law because it is not enforced by specialized personnel. )