Test Bank True False Chapter 1 Law Its Function And Purpose - Chapter Test Bank | Law & Society 4e Walsh by Anthony Walsh. DOCX document preview.
CHAPTER 1
TRUE/FALSE QUESTIONS
1. Law is a system of proscribed and prescribed behavior.
2. Culture is a learned behavior.
3. Beliefs are ideas that we have about how the world operates.
4. Symbols are not a significant component of culture.
5. Norms are the “storehouse of culture.”
6. Thomas Hobbes is known for his “theory of forms.”
7. Hammurabi did not depend on a deity to justify his laws.
8. Aristotle was a student of Plato.
9. Plato was an elitist credited with developing the concept of the “philosopher king.”
10. Thomas Hobbes was a contemporary of Plato.
11. John Locke’s view of the state of nature was one of constant war.
12. Thomas Hobbes’s view of the state of nature was one of harmony.
13. Emile Durkheim argued that societies are characterized by either organic or mechanical solidarity.
14. In non-industrial societies, social relations are based on primary group relationships.
15. Sociologists who study the law as a social institution tend to hold either a consensus or conflict view of society.
16. Aristotle equates the concept of law with justice.
17. John Locke and Thomas Hobbes were largely in agreement about the state of nature.
18. Thomas Hobbes disavowed any belief in natural law or justice.
19. Marx equated the concept of law with justice.
20. The criminal law changes with the type of solidarity of a society.
21. Hobbes was a strong believer in natural law.
22. Positive law theorists are moral absolutists.
23. Law is socially constructed for positivist theorists.
24. The moral quality of the law is an essential concern of legal positivists.
25. Symbols are physical, tangible things that stand for abstract principles.
26. Aristotle thought that even kings should be subject to the law.
27. Plato believed that positive law is flawed.
28. Modern societies are characterized by Durkheim’s mechanical solidarity.
29. A norm is the action component of a value or belief.
30. The critical legal theory claims that law is politics by other means in the sense that it is a way the “privileged classes” maintain their favored place in society and a way to “legitimately” keep the working class down.