Western European Culture and Legal Systems Quiz

Mode of socialization and reward structure

Eurocentricity

Materialism, aggression, individualism

<p>Features of the Eurocentric worldview are present</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Three</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Western; Euro-American</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Consumption of natural resources and material goods</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Racism, colonialism, group-based oppression, environmental degradation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Law is a Eurocentric Enterprise</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Racism, sexism, classism</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Profoundly materialistic</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Dichotomous reasoning</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>Reality structured by subject/object division; world outside the human subject comprised of objects that can be owned, used, controlled, disposed of, etc.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Viewing something as abstract rather than concrete; reducing a concept or idea and separating it from its real, concrete context, meaning, and realization.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The belief that everything in nature and the universe has a scientific, observable, calculable logical explanation, devoid of myth, emotion, or supernatural forces.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The prioritization of a secular worldview, leading to a 'despiritualized world' where nothing is considered sacred, and the sacred or divine is displaced to the private or spiritual realm.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It infuses the dominant view of law with Western materialistic culture, emphasizing competition, domination, division, hierarchy, and rationalization.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It shapes thought, action, behavior, beliefs, ways of life, and institutions, governing how individuals conduct their lives.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Whether democracy, as collective governance of human affairs, includes the ideas by which we organize our lives and conduct our affairs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The text presents a general critique of Eurocentricity, acknowledging the necessity of generalization in its discussion.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Natural Law ended up into a rationalist, logical, bureaucratic view of law no longer imbued with deeper essences or values.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Legal positivism critiques law as the command of the sovereign and the removal of morality from law.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Theories in the Law-in-Context introduce important critiques of Western law.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Modern law is fundamentally defined by the Eurocentric system.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Legal education and practice have been taken over by extreme rationalization and analytical thought, reducing law to facts and rules.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>'THE LAW' is a particular social construction that exhibits cultural attributes peculiar to European and European-derived societies.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The cultural logic, epistemology, axiology, ontology, ethos, and aesthetic choice of Eurocentric culture.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Readily discernible.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Central nervous system of social and economic regulation, controls and commands, legitimates power relations, structures and organizes the world into Eurocentric principles.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Commands obedience, imposes sanctions, holds a monopoly on violence.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By subjugating other cultures and legitimating relations of domination.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Eurocentric law subjugates other cultures.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Legitimates relations of domination.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Wessel Le Roux's 'Natural Law Theories'.</p> Signup and view all the answers