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  2. Sociology of law - Wikipedia

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    Law is something else, something that we isolate out and call law…". [101] The "strong" version, on the other hand, rejects all legal centralist and formalist models of law, as "a myth, an ideal, a claim, an illusion," [102] regarding state law as one among many forms of law or forms of social ordering. It insists that modern law is plural ...

  3. Language isolate - Wikipedia

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    A language isolate is a language that has no demonstrable genetic relationship with any other languages. [1] [2] Basque in Europe, Ainu [1] in Asia, Sandawe in Africa, Haida and Zuni in North America, Kanoê in South America, Tiwi in Australia and Burushaski in Pakistan are all examples of such languages. The exact number of language isolates ...

  4. Social law - Wikipedia

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    Social law is an unified concept of law, which replaces the classical division of public law and private law.The term has both been used to mean fields of law that fall between "core" private and public subjects, such as corporate law, competition law, labour law and social security, [1] or as a unified concept for the whole of the law based on associations.

  5. Legal consciousness - Wikipedia

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    Legal consciousness is the way in which law is experienced and interpreted by specific individuals as they engage, avoid, resist or just assume the law and legal meanings. [4] Legal consciousness is a state of being, legal socialisation is the process to Legal consciousness; where as legal awareness & legal mobilisation are means to achieve the ...

  6. Plain meaning rule - Wikipedia

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    The plain meaning rule dictates that statutes are to be interpreted using the ordinary meaning of the language of the statute. In other words, a statute is to be read word for word and is to be interpreted according to the ordinary meaning of the language, unless a statute explicitly defines some of its terms otherwise or unless the result ...

  7. Social fact - Wikipedia

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    For Marcel Mauss, Durkheim's nephew and sometime collaborator, a total social fact (French fait social total) is "an activity that has implications throughout society, in the economic, legal, political, and religious spheres." [8] Diverse strands of social and psychological life are woven together through what he came to call total social facts.

  8. Social anthropology - Wikipedia

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    Social anthropology is a term applied to ethnographic works that attempt to isolate a particular system of social relations such as those that comprise domestic life, economy, law, politics, or religion, give analytical priority to the organizational bases of social life, and attend to cultural phenomena as somewhat secondary to the main issues ...

  9. Isolating language - Wikipedia

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    An isolating language is a type of language with a morpheme per word ratio close to one, and with no inflectional morphology whatsoever. In the extreme case, each word contains a single morpheme. Examples of widely spoken isolating languages are Yoruba [1] in West Africa and Vietnamese [2] [3] (especially its colloquial register) in Southeast Asia.