Sociology 2260A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: E. Adamson Hoebel, Legal Positivism, Status Quo
22 Feb 2017
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Legal culture: attributes of behavior and attitudes that make one society different from another. Sociology of law: values, interaction patterns and ideologies that structure arrangements in societies as norms. Sociological jurisprudence: study of law and legal philosophy, and use of its ideas to regulate conduct. Legal literacy: awareness of rights and law, ability to assert rights and capacity to mobilize change. Law has three basic features: pressures to comply w/ law must come externally from action or threat by others, action or threat through coercion/force, individual coercing threats has official role of enforcing law. Customs: rules of conduct, long duration, observed w/out thinking (norms) Conventions: rules for conduct involving sense of duty and obligation. Four types of social control: penal punished, compensatory owes victim, therapeutic rehab, conciliatory marriage disputes. Substantive law: rights and prohibitions administered by court. Procedural law: how substantive laws are administered, enforced, changed and used.
