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CRM 325 Sociology of Law

HND1 levelManagement & Administration14 topics

CRM 325 covers 14 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Sociological approach to law
  2. Meaning of sociology and law
  3. Law as social control
  4. Law and social change
  5. Social reality, profession and practice of law
  6. Sociological theories and schools of thought of law
  7. Formal legal regulation and civil society
  8. Ethnicity, gender, status and social class in justice
  9. Operations of contemporary justice institutions
  10. Hierarchy of courts in Nigeria
  11. Law and society
  12. Law and economy, stratification and political actors
  13. Deviance, crime and compliance
  14. Filtering institutions

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One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Sociological approach to law

The sociological approach to law examines law as a social institution that both shapes and is shaped by society. Students must grasp how legal rules reflect social values, maintain social order, and can be contested or transformed. Mastery of these ideas is crucial for exam questions on the functions of law, the relationship between law and society, and the main sociological theories that interpret legal phenomena.

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