SOC 705 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Private Law, Social Order, Socialist Law
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In every human society throughout history, there have been mechanisms for the declaration, alteration, administration, and enforcement of the rules by which people live. Traditional societies: rely almost exclusively on custom, resolve disputes through conciliation, mediation by village elders, or other moral or divine authority, relations are more direct and intimate, non-legal, informal mechanisms of social control. Law reflects the intellectual, social, economic, and political climate of its time, as well as the particular ideas, ideals, and ideologies that are part of a distinct: Legal culture: those attributes of behaviour and attitudes that make the law of one society different from that of another. Norms: rules that prescribe the appropriate behaviour for people in a given situation. Both nationally and internationally, a number of organizations have been formed and centres established the study the multifaceted interaction between law and society.