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  2. Sociology of law - Wikipedia

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    Irrespective of whether sociology of law is defined as a sub-discipline of sociology, an approach within legal studies or a field of research in its own right, it remains intellectually dependent mainly on the traditions, methods and theories of sociology proper, criminology, administration of justice, and processes that define the criminal ...

  3. Legal behavior - Wikipedia

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    In 1976, theoretical sociologist Donald Black introduced a general sociological theory of law in his book The Behavior of Law. The theory exemplified Black's sociological paradigm known as pure sociology. [1] [2] A central aspect of this paradigm was the reconceptualization of human behavior as the behavior of social life.

  4. Affect control theory - Wikipedia

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    Deflections are the distances in the EPA space between transient and fundamental affective meanings. For example, a mother complimented by a stranger feels that the unknown individual is much nicer than a stranger is supposed to be, and a bit too potent and active as well – thus there is a moderate distance between the impression created and the mother's sentiment about strangers.

  5. Sociology - Wikipedia

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    The sociology of law refers to both a sub-discipline of sociology and an approach within the field of legal studies. Sociology of law is a diverse field of study that examines the interaction of law with other aspects of society, such as the development of legal institutions and the effect of laws on social change and vice versa.

  6. Legal socialization - Wikipedia

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    The authors: Chantal Kourilsky-Augeven believe pre-eminence previously given to the transmission processes of values, norms and behavioural models should be renounced in favour of a definition of legal socialisation during childhood and adolescence, from the perspective of the subject playing an active part; Law must be considered as a ...

  7. List of effects - Wikipedia

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    Thermal Hall effect (condensed matter) (Hall effect) (superconductivity) Third-person effect (media studies) Thorpe–Ingold effect (chemical kinetics) (organic chemistry) Threshold effect (particle physics) (physics) (renormalization group) Tinkerbell effect (sociology) Tocqueville effect (sociology)

  8. Lawmaking - Wikipedia

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    Lawmaking is the process of crafting legislation. [1] In its purest sense, it is the basis of governance.. Lawmaking in modern democracies is the work of legislatures, which exist at the local, regional, and national levels and make such laws as are appropriate to their level, and binding over those under their jurisdictions.

  9. Force-field analysis - Wikipedia

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    In social science, force-field analysis provides a framework for looking at the factors ("forces") that influence a situation, originally social situations. It looks at forces that are either driving the movement toward a goal (helping forces) or blocking movement toward a goal (hindering forces).