SOC 354 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Whistling Kettle, Informal Social Control, Richard Schwartz
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Unit i: theoreical foundaions of the sociology of law: historical context of law & society movement. Foundaional schools of thought: natural law tradiion: Unchangeable laws of nature and social inst. should try to match these laws; moralist approach, right vs. wrong/good vs. bad; marin luther has this perspecive. Law ought to be rooted in rules that are intrinsic to human behavior or laws of nature. Takes the moralist approach to seeing the world. Oten uses the religious perspecive: raionalism and the enlightenment. Both in response to the natural law tradiion. Enlightenment: turned away from tradiion and religion and towards reason logic and science. Law becomes secularized from religious sources of authority. Sill focused on abstract general principles as a central feature to the legal order. Raionalism of law took diferent courses in coninental europe; civil law tradiion-make a working rule apply to everything.
