LS101 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Social Contract, Sociology, Social Fact
12 Oct 2018
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Lecture 1 phenomenology of law and society. What is law: law is society and society is also law (aristotle, order vs. Law is a social contract: an agreement between an individual and a state: obey laws and in return you will get peace and safety, t. hobbes (1651) In order to have a society/state, the society must institute artificial community: a written contract, the state is the contract. Law is a set of rules that plays an important part in the creation and maintenance of social order. Law rules of conduct, - shaping our behaviour as a member of given society. Imposed by a state, - society: upon its members, and enforced by the courts, elements of the definition rules of conduct, state, courts. Law is a moral phenology: there is a debate of the limit between law and sociology. Law is also tied to a particular vision of society.
