Sociology 2260A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Consolidated Laws Of New York, Ascribed Status, Dialectical Materialism
6 Feb 2017
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Legal development is conditioned by a series of integrative demands stemming from. Turner views legal development as a form of institutional adjustment to the ubiquitous problems of control and coordination facing modernizing society. Typically found in hunting-and-gathering and simple agrarian societies. Laws are not written or codified society"s economic, political, educational, and religious institutions: they"re permeated by customs, tradition, religious dogma, and values. Substantive laws the rights, duties, and prohibitions administered by courts concerning what is right, wrong, permissible, and impermissible which. Procedural laws rules regarding how substantive law is to be administered, enforced, Legislators don"t exist in traditional societies: sometimes as a representative (cid:498)lawyer(cid:499) No well-developed political subsystems, and the polity is composed of kin leaders, Emphasis on court enacted law rather than legislative law enacted by political. Characteristic of advanced agrarian and early industrial societies where the councils of elders or chiefs, and various religious leaders.
