Student Name: Abdul Teniola
Student Number: 8388577
Title: Socio-political conditions shaping how people organize social relations and moral order. Positive laws are human made laws that oblige or specify a distinct action. It also helps with the establishment of certain rights for a group of people or an individual. Positive law is very different from natural law which comprises of rights not made by man but by God, mother nature or reasoning. The positive law also describes the law of the present or past at a time or place consisting of certain laws that makes it binding. Positive law may be characterized as actual law and enacted by proper authority for the government of an organized society. They are written laws. Natural law is a philosophical law that explains that certain rights are inborn by human nature and can be understood through human reasoning. Natural law uses the …show more content…
Being deviant defines an action or behavior that violates social norms and rules in place. Criminologist tries to study how the norms are created and how they change in time. Sociologist believes it to be any thought, feeling or action that a social group judge to be a violation of their rules or conducts. Deviance is relative to place and time because deviance in one place might not be the same in another. Killing a human is a deviant action except when it is for the government for war or in self-defense.
Durkheim was a sociologist who believed that defiance was a normal and necessary part of the societal organization. He stated four important functions of deviance: "deviance affirms cultural values and norms. Any definition of virtue rests upon an opposing idea of vice: there can be no good without evil and no justice without crime", deviance defines moral boundaries, a serious form of deviance forces people to come together and react in the same way against it and deviance pushes society's moral boundaries which lead to social
Student Number: 8388577
Title: Socio-political conditions shaping how people organize social relations and moral order. Positive laws are human made laws that oblige or specify a distinct action. It also helps with the establishment of certain rights for a group of people or an individual. Positive law is very different from natural law which comprises of rights not made by man but by God, mother nature or reasoning. The positive law also describes the law of the present or past at a time or place consisting of certain laws that makes it binding. Positive law may be characterized as actual law and enacted by proper authority for the government of an organized society. They are written laws. Natural law is a philosophical law that explains that certain rights are inborn by human nature and can be understood through human reasoning. Natural law uses the …show more content…
Being deviant defines an action or behavior that violates social norms and rules in place. Criminologist tries to study how the norms are created and how they change in time. Sociologist believes it to be any thought, feeling or action that a social group judge to be a violation of their rules or conducts. Deviance is relative to place and time because deviance in one place might not be the same in another. Killing a human is a deviant action except when it is for the government for war or in self-defense.
Durkheim was a sociologist who believed that defiance was a normal and necessary part of the societal organization. He stated four important functions of deviance: "deviance affirms cultural values and norms. Any definition of virtue rests upon an opposing idea of vice: there can be no good without evil and no justice without crime", deviance defines moral boundaries, a serious form of deviance forces people to come together and react in the same way against it and deviance pushes society's moral boundaries which lead to social