SOC216H5 Lecture Notes - Law School Admission Test, Classpass
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Development of legal institutions, social control, regulation, social construction, social change. The place of law in social, political, and economical. We"ve got lawyers to practice criminal law and to prosecute. 22/28 of canadian prime ministers have been lawyers. In1950: 9000, 2015: expect to be 125000 lawyers. Rate of growth is faster than that of other practices. Transformative information: they take someone in who doesn"t know a lot about law, open up different views, people who will work to make society a better place. The other view is that lawyers are here maintain status quo, trying to keep a certain level of status or hold a legacy. Lawyers are socialized to become lawyers, not learning the rules, but how you commu- nicate. People that go to law school tend to have parents who have a high education. Reproducing what is already being seen in society. What does it matter where you went to school going to law school: