SOSC 1375 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Immigration Act Of 1924, Practical Reason, Legal Positivism
25 Oct 2017
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The official version of law : what the legal world would have us believe about itself- is that it is an. Law and society midterm impartial, neutral and objective system for resolving social conflict. Separation thesis (law and morality): law and morality are separable (have no place together, the heart of legal positivism) Law don"t always coincide with moral codes. Tort law: deals with private wrongs committed against one another, e. g. injury caused by negligence. Legal consciousness: participation in progress of constructing legality, collective action. Collective construction that simultaneously expresses, uses, and creates publicly exchanged understandings. Consciousness is a necessary condition of criminal culpability. When legal issues are incorporated into our daily lives. Examples of legality: paying bills, walking on someone"s property, trespassing, birth/death, marriage/divorce, saturday/sunday off. Socio-legal studies: law is in the domain of the social. It is not autonomous or self-contained, it is a human and thus social institution.
