SOC216H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Christopher Columbus Langdell, Parental Leave, Racialization
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Stages in professionaliozation (wilensky: full-time occupation, formal training, professional associations. Licensing laws: requirement to have a license to do something: make the bar, formal codes of ethics, how to deal with people who haven"t reached the standard. Professions arise to meet a need, serve a public good: members autonomous: in control and disciplined. Initially few formal barriers to entry, and law is (for some) a pathway to social mobility: before only seen as apprentice, often paid and normally followed people around then could enter into law. Over time, entrance to profession becomes more exclusionary. Many law schools adopt the case method model developed by christopher langdell, dean of. Looking at cases shows the practical theory away. Learning from specific applications of law and working upward from their to learn more. Have to determine from the cases on how it was decided what"s the moral of the story. How may you apply that in future cases.
