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Law's Community: Legal Theory in Sociological Perspective » Read Now
by Roger S. Cotterrell. 382 pgs.

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Law's Community offers a distinctive analysis of law, identifying political and moral problems that are fundamental to contemporary legal theory. It portrays contemporary law as institutionalized doctrine, emphasizing ways in which legal modes of thought influence wider currents of understanding and...
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Law's Community offers a distinctive analysis of law, identifying political and moral problems that are fundamental to contemporary legal theory. It portrays contemporary law as institutionalized doctrine, emphasizing ways in which legal modes of thought influence wider currents of understanding and belief in contemporary Western societies. Exploring relationships between law and sociology as contrasting and competing fields of knowledge, Law's Community develops ideas from social theory to identify key problems for legal development; in particular, those of restoring moral authority to law and of elaborating a concept of community that can guide legal regulation. The analysis leads to radical conclusions: among them, that law's functions need reconsideration at the most general level, that a unitary state legal system as portrayed in traditional kinds of legal theory may no longer be adequate in complex contemporary societies, and that law should be reconceptualized as a diverse but co-ordinated plurality of systems, sites, and forms of regulation.
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Law and Society: A Sociological View (1968) » Read Now
by Edwin M. Schur. 239 pgs.

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...development of a course on the sociology of law, which I have been teaching for...is the primary concern of the sociology of law. Certainly it is true that...
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Law and Sociology, Exploratory Essays (1962) » Read Now
by William M. Evan. 235 pgs.

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...Introduction: Some Approaches to the Sociology of Law William M. Evan 1...Some Approaches to the Sociology of Law For over a decade there has been a renewal of interest in...
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Legal Culture and the Legal Profession » Read Now
by Lawrence M. Friedman, Harry N. Scheiber. 184 pgs.

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...Stanford Law School, UC Boalt Hall School of Law, and the UC Berkeley Center for the Study of Law and Society all provided important...Feeley of the Center for the Study...
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Neighborhood Justice in Capitalist Society: The Expansion of the Informal State » Read Now
by Richard Hofrichter. 200 pgs.

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Documents and Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Class Struggle, Crisis, and the Changing Role of the State Capitalism and Crisis The Role of the Capitalist State Hegemony, Social Reproduction, and the Role of the State The Legal Crisis of the State Emerging Forms of the State Part II:...
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Documents and Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Class Struggle, Crisis, and the Changing Role of the State Capitalism and Crisis The Role of the Capitalist State Hegemony, Social Reproduction, and the Role of the State The Legal Crisis of the State Emerging Forms of the State Part II: Neighborhood Dispute Resolution and the State The Structure of Neighborhood Dispute Resolution The Informal State and Neighborhood Justice Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Rights, Remembrance, and the Reconciliation of Difference, in Law & Society Review » Read Now
by David M. Engel, Frank W. Munger. 47 pgs.

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...the Research Committee on the Sociology of Law in Tokyo. We thank other readers...on familiar traditions in the law and society field, including the use of case studies in...
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Realistic Socio-Legal Theory: Pragmatism and a Social Theory of Law » Read Now
by Brian Z. Tamanaha. 280 pgs.

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Combining philosophical pargmatism with a methodological foundation, Tamanaha formulates a framework for a realistic approach to socio-legal theory. The strengths of this approach are contrasted with that of the major schools of socio-legal theory by application to core issues in this area. Thus...
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Combining philosophical pargmatism with a methodological foundation, Tamanaha formulates a framework for a realistic approach to socio-legal theory. The strengths of this approach are contrasted with that of the major schools of socio-legal theory by application to core issues in this area. Thus Tamanaha explores the problematic state of socio-legal studies, the relationship between behaviour and meaning, the notion of legal ideology, the problem of indeterminacy in rule following and application, and the structure of judicial decision making. These issues are tackled in a clear and concise fashion while articulating a social theory of law which draws equally from legal theory and socio-legal theory.
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The Oldest Social Science? Configurations of Law and Modernity » Read Now
by W. T. Murphy. 269 pgs.

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This book looks critically at some of the underlying assumptions which shape our current understanding of the role and purpose of law and society. It focuses on adjudication as a social practice and as a set of governmental techniques. From this vantage point, it explores how the relationship...
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This book looks critically at some of the underlying assumptions which shape our current understanding of the role and purpose of law and society. It focuses on adjudication as a social practice and as a set of governmental techniques. From this vantage point, it explores how the relationship between law, government and society has changed in the course of history in significant ways. At the centre of the argument is the elaboration of the notion of `adjudicative government'. From this perspective it is argued that the relationship between law and society must be conceived in a different way in the era of economics, sociology and statistics. The impact of these disciplines both constitutes `modernity' and unfolds a different role for law. The author argues that the traditional vision of the role of law, rooted in a complex set of hierarchical assumptions, is no longer adequate.
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Constitutive Criminology: Origins, Core Concepts, and Evaluation, in Social Justice » Read Now
by Stuart Henry, Dragan Milovanovic. 23 pgs.

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...been developing theories in the sociology of law, particularly Lacanian postmoderism...devoted a chapter to it in his Sociology of Law (1994a: Chapter 6). The...
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Resistance and the Cultural Power of Law, in Law & Society Review » Read Now
by Sally Engle Merry. 16 pgs.

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...Rights, International Institute for Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain, 5-9 July 1993, published...Newsletter of the Working Group on the Sociology of Human Rights No. 1, p. 3...
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Evidence as Partisanship, in Law & Society Review » Read Now
by Mark Cooney. 26 pgs.

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...Department of Sociology, University of Georgia, Baldwin...30602-1611. Law Society Review...The Behavior of Law . New York...A Strategy of Pure Sociology," in S. G...Lecture...
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Law and Liberation » Read Now
by Robert E. Rodes Jr. 262 pgs.

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...context influenced by a Marxist perception of law as an instrument of the dominant class...that seem far removed from the rule of law. As a result, people who try to...
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Equal Justice » Read Now
by Eric Rakowski. 388 pgs.

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The core of this book is a novel theory of distributive justice premised on the fundamental moral equality of persons. In the light of this theory, Rakowski considers three types of problems which urgently require solutions-- the distribution of resources, property rights, and the saving of...
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The core of this book is a novel theory of distributive justice premised on the fundamental moral equality of persons. In the light of this theory, Rakowski considers three types of problems which urgently require solutions-- the distribution of resources, property rights, and the saving of life--and provides challenging and unconventional answers. Further, he criticizes the economic analysis of law as a normative theory, and develops an alternative account of tort and property law.
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Social Oppression » Read Now
by Adam Podgorecki, Marvin Wolfgang. 152 pgs.

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Podgorecki examines oppression that results from pressures inside social groupings, large and small, effected by different normative and conformity-inducing mechanisms designed to regulate human behavior. Podgorecki provides a critical examination of the empirical findings in the most important and...
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Podgorecki examines oppression that results from pressures inside social groupings, large and small, effected by different normative and conformity-inducing mechanisms designed to regulate human behavior. Podgorecki provides a critical examination of the empirical findings in the most important and imaginative experimental studies of various types of oppression (including those by Milgram and Zimbardo), as well as data collected in "natural" settings like asylums or concentration camps. New interpretations of those findings furnish a new angle of vision requiring modification of the existing typologies of individual adaptation including the best known typology elaborated by Merton (conformity, ritualism, innovation, withdrawal, rebellion). Podgorecki goes on to trace regularities in historically recorded patterns of behavior of people living under totalitarian and post-totalitarian conditions. Finally, based on these insights and on the recent developments in sociology of law, a new theory of lawis advanced, which utilizes as its important axis a conceptual differentiation between the official and intuitive law. Recommended for scholars of sociology, social psychology, political science, and especially criminology.
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American Legal Realism and Empirical Social Science » Read Now
by John Henry Schlegel. 418 pgs.

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