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The document discusses the concept of moral entrepreneurship in relation to lawmaking, arguing that laws are often influenced by individuals or groups rather than a simple consensus or conflict. It highlights how interest groups play a significant role in shaping laws and policies, often reflecting their specific interests. The author suggests that a combination of perspectives is necessary for a comprehensive understanding of the sociological analysis of law and society.

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Moral

The document discusses the concept of moral entrepreneurship in relation to lawmaking, arguing that laws are often influenced by individuals or groups rather than a simple consensus or conflict. It highlights how interest groups play a significant role in shaping laws and policies, often reflecting their specific interests. The author suggests that a combination of perspectives is necessary for a comprehensive understanding of the sociological analysis of law and society.

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Moral Entrepreneurship

I was unable to do assignment 1 due to not having access to the whole text book at the

time. From what I read I don't think that we can lean on just one perspective because society

does not work simply on consensus or conflict. If anything I think that it leans more towards

conflict consensus. After learning about moral entrepreneurship I think it better describes the

sociological analysis pertaining to law making.

The moral entrepreneur theory attributes the precipitation of law and other key events to

the “presence of an enterprising individual or group. Their activities can properly be called moral

enterprise, for what they are enterprising about is the creation of a new fragment of the moral

constitution of society, its code of right and wrong. This better describes what we see in society

because through the years we can see that laws were made to favor an individual or group

although not necessarily based on “good or bad” . Not one of the perspectives can fully

encompass and define our law and society but moral entrepreneurship gives us a better

understanding of the lawmaking process. When it comes to changing laws I think that conflict

perspective best describes this. We can see how moral entrepreneurship works with the interest-

group thesis contends that laws are created because of the special interests of

certain groups in the population (Mahood, 2000). Examples of interest-group influence

in lawmaking and policy-making abound (Gioacchino et al., 2004; Rozell et al., 2006).

Today’s laws governing the use of alcohol, regulations concerning sexual conduct, abortion bills,

pure food and drug legislation, antitrust laws, and all automobile safety standards, and the like

ultimately originated in interest-group activity. Even alterations in existing statutes are not

immune from influence by those who see some threat or advantage in the proposed changes.
Often, interest groups also act as a communication network for social movements, facilitating the

dissemination of their ideas in a manner that helps to legitimize movements, exert public

pressure for legal change, attract some politicians to the movements objectives, and effect policy

change (McCann, 2006). Also, It is harder for minorities for minorities voices to be heard due to

lack of representation. All perspectives work to some extent and a merge of them is what fully

gives us an understanding of sociological analysis of law and society.

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