Sentences with phrase «customs of a particular society»
In this context «society» is to be understood as a body of persons united in and by its acknowledgement and observance of a body of laws and customs... To speak of rights and interests possessed under an identified body of laws and customs is, therefore, to speak of rights and interests that are the creatures of the laws and customs of a particular society that exists as a group which acknowledges and observes those laws and customs.8
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What Whitehead offers to effect this particular translation of cosmology and sociology is the reintroduction of a theory of «social custom» to serve as the founding principle of order in human society.
In the generic sense, for Whitehead, the customs of any given civilized society function as the requisite «patterns of relationship,» which not only define but also substantiate the particular order of that society.
Throughout their study of world history, students can reflect on how the rules and customs of other societies nurtured particular relationships among their members.
In Yorta Yorta51 the High Court made it clear that two factors in particular can interfere with continuity of a society and continuity in the observance of traditional law and custom: 52
Justice Wilcox found that in 1829 the claim area was occupied and used by «Aboriginal people who spoke dialects of a common language and who acknowledged and observed a common body of laws and customs».47 He accepted that what united and distinguished them from neighbouring groups was a «commonality of belief, language, custom and material culture».48 Though sub-groups or families exercised particular rights and responsibilities for particular areas to which they «belonged», those rights and responsibilities arose from a wider normative system that operated within the broader Noongar society.49 The rights of the sub-group were burdened by the entitlement of others to access land for various purposes.50
Moreover it is the observation and acknowledgement of laws and customs that define a particular society.