Sociology 2260A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Corpus Juris Civilis, Verstehen, Anomie
22 Feb 2017
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As societies become larger, more complex, and modern, homogeneity gives way to heterogeneity. Law reflects the intellectual, social, economic, and political climate of its time. Law is inseparable from the interests, goals, and understandings that deeply shape or compromise social and economic life. Law reflects specific ideas, ideals and ideologies that are part of a distinct legal culture those attributes of behavior and attitudes that make law of one society different from another. In sociology, study of law embraces # of well-established areas of inquiry: values, interaction patterns, ideologies that underlie basic structural arrangements in a society, any of which are represented in law as basic rules. Asserted that law should be studied as a social institution. Interest in law grew rapidly after wwii. Canadian charter of rights and freedoms came into effect on april 17th, 1982. Interest in law and society is not confined to north america.
