SOSC 2350- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 14 pages long!)
5 Oct 2017
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Lecture #2 - law: its making & organization. A rational means for protecting the members of society from social harm (particularly criminal law) Customs and laws are what keeps the order in society. keeps society functioning, everyone agrees on these customs, how society functions. If people disagree, there is chaos, law emerges from customs. Reinstatement of customs to be enforced by legal customs > laws. Law as a restatement of customs enforced by legal institutions. A crystallization of custom, of the existing normative order. Laws are passed because they represent the voice of the people. Customs > norms or rules about the ways in which people must. Customs > norms or rules about the ways in which people must behave if social institutions are to perform their functions & society is to endure. Some people will disregard the law, such as lawyers, who uses law as a social control.
