SOC 705 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Social Control, E. Adamson Hoebel, Gender Studies

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 705
• Professor: Terry Roswell

Document Summary

Formal codified law emerges when the social structure of a given society becomes so complex that regulatory mechanisms and methods of dispute settlement can no longer be dependent on informal customs and social, religious, or moral sanctions. Legal development and industrialization, urbanization, and modernization have been closely intertwined. In a small, homogeneous society with little division of labour and a high degree of solidarity, informal sanctions are sufficient to keep most behaviour in line with the norms. There is some overall pattern of legal development, the specifics vary from society to society. The more complex the society, the more differentiated the legal system. Legal development is conditioned by a series of integrative demands stemming from society"s economic, political, educational, and religious institutions. Permeated by customs, tradition, religious dogma, and values. Substantive laws: consist of rights, duties, and prohibitions concerning what is right, wrong, and permissible, and impermissible.