LS300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Adversarial System, Law Society, Legal Personality
Document Summary
Think of social theory as a set of answers to quesions we ask about our lives and the social world we live in. Social theory can clarify and inform our understandings of what we do on a daily basis and what goes on in the world around us. Social theories do not operate in a vacuum. Theories that receive the most atenion will be those that mesh well with the imes: ex. Funcionalism was big during the cold war because of it"s conservaive ies, but it waned during the 1960s due to poliical conlicts: other theories liberal pluralist, neo-marxism, and feminism gained prominence in 1960s/70s. Theory is not staic theorizing is a cumulaive enterprise, builds on previous work: individual theories build on those before the, and change in response to social developments. Oicial version of law provides a backdrop for exploring diferent theoreical approaches that have emerged in the sociology of law to understand the law- society relaion.
