SOAN 2111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cultural Relativism, Soil Fertility, New Gods
20 Apr 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
2 related ideas a. ) ppl can develop laws that are reasonable b. ) Reasonable laws for society may be different from those of another society. Relativism thinker apply relativism to the law. Allow ppl as much as freedom as possible. Study of social science conditions of time & place societies could be distinguished by their customs and institutions cultural relativism (applied this to laws was one of the first to do this) Conditions of climate & geography (impose certain limitations on a society, further they are from nature the less the influence to climate and geography) Believed laws and government to allow as much freedom to people as possible- gov"t to be moderate human nature and social custom to do most of the work c. ) laws of nature. 2 kinds of laws one of physical world and the other human life. Looked at society as something that could distinguish eachother through laws and customs.
