Sociology 2260A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Order
22 Jan 2017
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Law incorporates values, ideologies, social institutions, norms, power relations and social processes law can be studied as a social process instrumented by individuals during social interactions. Understand how society works by examining the role law plays. Plays a fundamental role in our society and in our lives. Affects how we behave or don"t behave. The skeleton that structures our economic, social and political lives. In the world we live-the country we live in-almost nothing has more impact on our lives, nothing is more entangled with our everyday existence, than that something we call law. (friedman, 2004) Social order rests on people"s willingness to obey rules, laws, norms. Emile durkheim: good society when people respect rules, laws and this occurs through 2 processes. Socialization (what"s appropriate, right/wrong) & social bonding. Authority: occurs when there is a probability that what people will obey a specific command. Legitimate authority: ones obligations to obey the laws simply because those.
