SOC216H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Metanarrative, Grand Theory, Literacy Test
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Influence legal policies. feminist movements, desegregation (civil rights), lgbtq rights complex relationship between legal and social change (reciprocal) X y (race affects income) ex. age, gender, race (can"t be changed) causal relationship between two variables (independent and dependent) law and society can go both ways (law can affect society and vice versa) Grand theory: evolution of time within society (modernization) influence on law. structure of society in a grand way (over hundreds of years) Durkheim (organic and mechanical more organic resulted in legal change as well) Some look at it in not such a grand narrative (society as a whole), look at particular developments within society. example: chambliss"s law of vagrancy (people who are homeless/moving around a lot) Bubonic plague: devastated the population of england and so it reduced the amount of workers. People on the hunt for new workers, high demand for work (resulted in increasing the minimum wage).
