SOC 3740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Social Fact, Judicial Notice, Mootness
Document Summary
A central function of dispute in canadian society is resolving certain kinds of disputes in a certain manner. Dispute occurs when the claim for redress is rejected because the initial situation is not admitted to be injurious, because responsibility is denied or because the suggested remedy is rejected as inappropriate. Clumping it is used to describe those who make a claim but go no further when it is rejected. Only a small minority of disputes go beyond the manager or school principle or shore steward to the lawyers offices, and even fewer make it into the courts. Many disputes pursue grievances not only in terms of material interests, but also in terms of norms about integrity, self image, self respect, and duties to others which are neither calculated more subjects or individual"s choice. A second threshold is imposed by the financial costs of pursuing judicial remedies.