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Learning Objectives
Chapter 1
Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:
- Define and identify different types of law and legal systems, including Romano-Germanic, Common-Law, Socialist and Islamic legal systems.
- Describe principal functions of law, specifically social control, dispute settlement, and social change.
- Discuss various paradigms of society from both a consensus and conflict perspective.
Chapter 2
Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:
- Describe the evolution of primitive, transitional, and modern legal systems.
- Identify various theories of law and society.
- Identify current intellectual movements in law.
Chapter 3
Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:
- Describe the organization of courts, the flow of litigation, and dispute categories.
- Discuss the organization of and participants in the legislative process, administrative agencies, and law enforcement agencies.
Chapter 4
Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:
- Compare and contrast the characteristics of administrative lawmaking to judicial lawmaking.
- Discuss various influences on the lawmaking process, including interest groups, public opinion, and social science.
- Identify and define various sources of impetus for law.
Chapter 5
Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:
- Identify and define informal and formal social controls.
- Give examples of crimes without victims, such as drug addiction, prostitution, and gambling.
Chapter 6
Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:
- Discuss both primary and hybrid processes as they pertain to dispute resolution.
- Identify all prerequisites for the use of courts in dispute resolution.
- Identify various types of disputes, including individual-individual, individual-organization, and organization-organization.
Chapter 7
Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:
- Discuss the efficacy of law as an instrument of social change.
- Identify the advantages and limitations of law in creating social change.
- Discuss the social, psychological, cultural, and economic factors related to the resistance to change.
Chapter 8
Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:
- Describe the background, professionalization, and evolution of the American legal profession.
- Discuss where the American legal profession stands today, and identify the areas in which lawyers practice law.
- Discuss law school and the socialization into the profession of law.
Chapter 9
Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:
- Describe historical, observational, experimental, and survey methods of inquiry.
- Identify the contributions of sociology to policy recommendations and to enacted policy.