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  2. Duty of care - Wikipedia

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    The duty of care may be imposed by operation of law between individuals who have no current direct relationship (familial or contractual or otherwise) but eventually become related in some manner, as defined by common law (meaning case law). Duty of care may be considered a formalisation of the social contract, the established and implicit ...

  3. Sociology of law - Wikipedia

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    More than often sociology of law benefits from research conducted within other fields such as comparative law, critical legal studies, jurisprudence, legal theory, law and economics and law and literature. Its object and that of jurisprudence focused on institutional questions conditioned by social and political situations converge - for ...

  4. Law - Wikipedia

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    The sociology of law examines the interaction of law with society and overlaps with jurisprudence, philosophy of law, social theory and more specialised subjects such as criminology. [214] [215] It is a transdisciplinary and multidisciplinary study focused on the theorisation and empirical study of legal practices and experiences as social ...

  5. Sociological theory - Wikipedia

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    Pure sociology is a theoretical paradigm, developed by Donald Black, that explains variation in social life through social geometry, meaning through locations in social space. A recent extension of this idea is that fluctuations in social space—i.e., social time —are the cause of social conflict.

  6. 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.

  7. Duty of care in English law - Wikipedia

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    The common law position regarding negligence recognised strict categories of negligence. In 1932, the duty of a care applied despite no prior relationship or interaction and was not constrained by privity of contract. [2] Here, a duty of care was found to be owed by a manufacturer to an end consumer, for negligence in the production of his goods.

  8. Ethics of care - Wikipedia

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    The ethics of care (alternatively care ethics or EoC) is a normative ethical theory that holds that moral action centers on interpersonal relationships and care or benevolence as a virtue. EoC is one of a cluster of normative ethical theories that were developed by some feminists and environmentalists since the 1980s. [ 1 ]

  9. Inverse care law - Wikipedia

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    The inverse care law is the principle that the availability of good medical or social care tends to vary inversely with the need of the population served. [1] Proposed by Julian Tudor Hart in 1971, the term has since been widely adopted. [2] It is considered a landmark publication in the history of The Lancet. [3]