SOSC 2350- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 54 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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Rational means for protecting the members of society from social harm. 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 people. Customs- norms or rules about the ways in which people must behave is social ins perform their functions and society is to endure. Who defined this consensus , who does it leave out. Law is traced to the emergency of an elite class - uses law as social control, to bene keep their position in society. Laws as a means to create a particular moral constitution of a society. Influences other groups to change or produce a law. Laws a means of stamping ideology with legitimacy and respectability. In attempt to maintain racial purity and to secure economic rights and interest with t. There is no pressure to maintain the status quo or opposition to proposed legislation.
