Law as a Eurocentric Enterprise: Module Theme Recap Quiz

A normative and contestable vision of law and social and political life.

To reflect or support a certain cultural and ideological worldview.

Jurisprudence / legal theory.

<p>A Eurocentric enterprise.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Natural Law, Legal Realism, Legal Positivism.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Every mode of reasoning used by lawyers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>University of Florida.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Race, diversity, critical theories, and human injustice.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Centering European culture, perspectives, and interests as superior or advanced.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Culture is defined as patterns of and for behavior, transmitted and achieved by human groups.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It asserts that certain truths should be common to all people, irrespective of differences.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The belief that European existence is qualitatively superior to other forms of human life.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Law is not universal but created by different human societies with specific cultural perspectives.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Culture refers to patterns of behavior transmitted and achieved by human groups.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Eurocentrism appropriates non-European cultures by centering European perspectives and interests.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Eurocentrism posits Europe as the central and normative benchmark of human history, knowledge, and experience.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The mode of socialization and the reward structure present in the society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Art, science, economics, social life, and even the concept of law.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Materialism, aggression, and individualism.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Nunn.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Natural law, positivism, legal realism.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Materialistic, competitive, individualistic, narcissistic</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>European culture is linked to racism, colonialism, and environmental degradation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Law is a Eurocentric enterprise promoting European values at the expense of others.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Problems like racism and sexism result from the fundamental nature of European society and culture.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Competitive acquisition and possession of material goods and resources.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Dichotomous reasoning views the world as comprising incompatible opposites.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>European culture structures differences in terms of inequality of worth, value, and contribution.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Analytical thought that breaks down an issue into constituent parts before examining each part separately.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Emphasize cosmological conception of law to rational basis in control and regulation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Critiques the 'naturalisation' of hierarchy in many natural law discourses.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Removes morality from law and reduces law to the command of the sovereign.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Rationalization, dichotomies, abstraction, objectification, desacralisation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Features of positivism.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By the Eurocentric system.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Distinctions between law and custom, common law and customary law, objective vs subjective, formal vs informal.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Taken over by extreme rationalization and analytical thought.</p> Signup and view all the answers