SOSC 1375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Legal Realism, Ontario Superior Court Of Justice, Ugly Law
4 Mar 2021
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What is socio legal studies?- a interdisciplinary approach of analyzing law. Key terms- ( diversity, different, students, law, concepts, interdisciplinary, overview, change) Law and society are the studies of anthropology, economics, history, philosophy, political science, psychology, and sociology. These studies are the nature and origin of law making and law breaking. Law is in the domain of the social. Interdisciplinary- involving or relating more than one branch of study. 1960: law and society emerges to challenge narrow doctrinal understandings of law. The awareness of the relationship between personal experience and the wider society. " the sociological imagination is to grasp hsitory and biography and the relations between the two within society" Critical thinking the objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form judgment. Stepping back from a situation to think about the key points and take in the different angles of opposing issues to equal a conclusion in order to form a judgment.
