SOC 3730 Lecture : WEEK 1 READINGS.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3730
• Professor: Michelle Dumas

Document Summary

Week 1 readings soc 3730 mccormick chapter 1. Strip away the human overtones and the social context that is part of what goes on around us: rules. Both the objective existence of rules as the way to resolve disputes and the specific contents of those rules are built into the legal mindset. Usually is not always and sometimes the general rule results in the sort of intuitively unsatisfactory outcome that journalists love because it sells newspapers: analogy filling the gaps b/w the existing rules.