Study Guide for Law and Justice
LAJ 102 MIDTERM REVIEW
Law- a written body of general rules of conduct applicable to all members of a defined community, society, or culture, which emanate from a governing authority and which are enforced by its agents by the imposition of penalties for their violations.
Culture- the totality of learned socially transmitted behaviors, ideas, values, customs, artifacts, and technology of groups of people living in a common society. It is the transmission of all sorts of information from generation to generation.
Beliefs #1- ideas that we have about how the world operates and what it is true and false.
Values #2- normative standards shared by the culture about what is good and bad, correct or incorrect, moral and immoral, and normal and deviant.
Norm’s #3- the action component of a value or a belief patterning social behavior in ways consistent with values and beliefs.
Symbols #4- concrete physical signs that “stand for” and signify abstractions that range from the mundane and specific to those that are suffused with meaning and can evoke the deepest of feelings.
Technology #5- the totality of the knowledge and techniques people employ to create the material objects of their sustenance and comfort.
Risk Society- a society “increasingly preoccupied” by the future & also with safety which generates the notion of risk.
Mores- more formal with serious implications for violations.
Folkways- less formal with lower implications for violations.
Natural Law- a system of law that is determined by nature, and thus universal. Used to analyze human nature both social and personal- and deduce binding rules of moral behavior from it.
Positive Law- used to describe man-made laws which oblige or specify an action. It also describes the establishment of specific rights for an individual or group.
Legal Positivism- is the thesis that the existence and content of law on social facts and not on its merits.
The code of Hammurabi- the oldest known written code of
Law- a written body of general rules of conduct applicable to all members of a defined community, society, or culture, which emanate from a governing authority and which are enforced by its agents by the imposition of penalties for their violations.
Culture- the totality of learned socially transmitted behaviors, ideas, values, customs, artifacts, and technology of groups of people living in a common society. It is the transmission of all sorts of information from generation to generation.
Beliefs #1- ideas that we have about how the world operates and what it is true and false.
Values #2- normative standards shared by the culture about what is good and bad, correct or incorrect, moral and immoral, and normal and deviant.
Norm’s #3- the action component of a value or a belief patterning social behavior in ways consistent with values and beliefs.
Symbols #4- concrete physical signs that “stand for” and signify abstractions that range from the mundane and specific to those that are suffused with meaning and can evoke the deepest of feelings.
Technology #5- the totality of the knowledge and techniques people employ to create the material objects of their sustenance and comfort.
Risk Society- a society “increasingly preoccupied” by the future & also with safety which generates the notion of risk.
Mores- more formal with serious implications for violations.
Folkways- less formal with lower implications for violations.
Natural Law- a system of law that is determined by nature, and thus universal. Used to analyze human nature both social and personal- and deduce binding rules of moral behavior from it.
Positive Law- used to describe man-made laws which oblige or specify an action. It also describes the establishment of specific rights for an individual or group.
Legal Positivism- is the thesis that the existence and content of law on social facts and not on its merits.
The code of Hammurabi- the oldest known written code of