[SOC 3490] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (10 pages long)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3490
• Professor: Scott Brandon

Document Summary

Law is something that is agreed upon by the majority of society, sense of equality. Functional, stable, very little conflict, not a lot of protest: usually what we have in western society. Conflict: groups in conflict: people who want legal change, and those who want establishment of the old order. Lots of different organizations or opinions of how things should be done, rights and wrongs, etc. Everyone is subject to the law (no biases) The la(cid:449) is (cid:862)just(cid:863) a(cid:374)d treats everyone the same. The personal subject to the law is not universal. The law claims to be impartial and without bias. The law itself is not always the way we would like to think of it. Timeline system dealing with cases and going through the different types of courts. La(cid:449) as a (cid:862)so(cid:272)ial fa(cid:272)t(cid:863: no sense of questioning the law or seeing it with (cid:272)riti(cid:272)is(cid:373), it(cid:859)s a(cid:374) i(cid:374)stitutio(cid:374), it (cid:449)ill al(cid:449)ays (cid:271)e there.