SOSC 1375 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Social History, Settler Colonialism, Indian Register
16 Oct 2017
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Socio-legal studies: the relationship between law and society, analyzed through a social, political and historical context. Understanding how law impacts the social situations and how social situations impact the law. Critical analysis: an attempt to understand and evaluate arguments. Relevant to socio-legal studies because we are trying to understand the relationship between law and society; how law impacts social situations and how social situations impact the law. Legal consciousness: participation in the process of constructing legality; occurs every time a person interprets some event in terms of legal concepts or terminology whether to applaud or criticize, appropriate or resist. People describe their relationships to the law as before the law which they understand, with the law which they engage, against the law which they struggle. Not merely a state a mind; is produced and revealed in what people do as well as what they say.
