ADMS 3420 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Sociology Of Law, Rulemaking, Occupational Safety And Health
28 Jan 2017
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Efficient breach: a deliberate violation of a contract or government statute owing to the belief that it"s more economically efficient to violate the legal rule than to comply with it. Subsystem: in legal sociology, a self-contained system within the broader social system that possesses its own rules, norms, and modes of communication. Examples include economic and market; legal; political; social, cultural, and religious; and ecological/environmental subsystems. The key actors in the common law regime are employers and individual employees. They engage in the rule-making process of negotiation, and their agreements produce the main output of the regime individual contracts and service. When disputes arise about those contracts, they"re sometimes resolved through civil litigation. Negotiation: discussion between two or more people aimed at reaching an agreement. Civil litigation: the process involved with lawsuits filed in court not involving criminal law statutes, such as legal actions for breach of contract or torts.
