CCJ 3701 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Group Conflict, Social Conflict, Abortion-Rights Movements
27 May 2017
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Law and society cjl3038 quiz 2 lecture notes. Law and society lecture 1. 2- january 10: purpose of class is to build on your own definitions to examine the law from different perspectives. Defining law: probably more scholarship has gone into defining and explaining the concept of law than any other concept in sociology, your initial definition of law is just as important as scholarly. Cardozo (1924, p. 52): that the law is a principle of rule of conduct so established as to justify a prediction with reasonable certainty that it will be enforced by the courts if its authority is challenged. So just because its something we normally or traditionally doesn"t necessarly mean that it is law. Example: trick or treating on halloween not a rule or law but a custom: he tried to capture what makes our customs, habits.
