Sociology 2260A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Substantive Law, A. V. Dicey, Legal Positivism

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2260A/B
• Professor: Brenda Kobayashi

Document Summary

Formal codified law emerged when traditional forms of dispute settlement can no longer be dependent on informal customs and when other control mechanisms are no longer effective. Changes in social organization also resulted in changes in the legal system content of law becomes more complex and specialized social institutions become more diversified and stratified. Legal development intertwined with industrialization, urbanization and modernization forms and sa(cid:374)(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s (cid:449)e(cid:396)e (cid:374)e(cid:272)essa(cid:396)(cid:455) i(cid:374) i(cid:374)(cid:272)(cid:396)easi(cid:374)gl(cid:455) (cid:373)ode(cid:396)(cid:374) so(cid:272)ieties to (cid:272)o(cid:374)t(cid:396)ol people"s (cid:271)eha(cid:448)io(cid:396) (cid:894)so(cid:272)ial o(cid:396)de(cid:396)(cid:895) and smooth running of the society. Turner (1972) legal development as a form of institutional adjustment to problems of control and coordination facing modernizing society. Modernizing society faces more conflict, tension, strains development varies based on different factors (history, geographical location etc) Controversial, justified by attempt to make sense of history early sociologists believed in progressive development of social patterns over long periods of time. Developmental models deal with the transformation of entire society or different levels individual, group, community, organization, social institutions.