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Criminal Justice-COLL Law and Society: Cross-Cultural Perspective P340 12470 Parnell
Law and Society is a broad field built on research and theory that addresses ways that law expresses and is a part of society and culture. Originating in the Law and Society Movement in the 1960s, the field has grown to encompass researchers from numerous disciplines, including law, sociology, anthropology, political science, history, philosophy, and psychology. Its topics range from the study of legal professionals to how communities create their own distinctive systems of law while reshaping state law to their own interests, goals, and identities. In this course we will examine many different forms of law in society as expressions of popular ways of thinking, communicating, and organizing the world. We will consider how law moves beyond officially legal institutions and processes and into our everyday lives and consciousness through merging with other popular forms of cultural expression and thought. Drawing on an interdisciplinary range of readings and research, we will reflect on how law forms a context for both expressing and shaping notions of responsibility, self, community, truth, rights, power, harmony, and control, and how the social world as we envision it can and should be held together.
Class Meeting: 11:45 - 1:00, Daily
Instructor: Professor Phil Parnell, criminal justice department
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