SOSC 2350- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 23 pages long!)

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 2350
• Professor: Amelie Barras

Document Summary

Protecting the members of society from social harm. How law emerges the main concern. Law is a restatement of customs enforced by legal institutions. Laws are passed because they represent the voice of the people. Customs norms or rules about the ways in which people must behave. Uses law as a social control - as a power to keep the needs in place. The origin of law is traced to the emergence of an elite class. Vagrancy laws refers to the offense of persons who are without visible means of support or domicile while able to work. A moral entrepreneur is an individual, group or formal organization that seeks to influence a group to adopt or maintain a norm. Moral entrepreneurs are those who take the lead in labeling a particular behaviour and spreading or popularizing this label throughout society. Laws as a means to create or maintain a particular moral constitution of society.