Law-Society : Origins, Interactions, and Change

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ISBN: 9780761987055 | 0761987053
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Copyright: 12/27/2000

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Foundations of the Sociology of Law provides a conceptual framework for thinking about the full range of topics within the sociology of law discipline.The book: contrasts normative and sociological perspectives on law; presents a primer on the logic of research and inference as applied to law related issues; examines theories of legal change; and discusses law in action with specific reference to civil rights legislation.

List of Tables

List of Figures

Foreword

Preface

xiii

Acknowledgments

xvii

An Introduction to the Sociology of Law

(22)

The Two Faces of Law

(4)

Law From a Sociological Perspective

(6)

What Is the Sociology of Law?

(9)

PART ONE Legal Change

(138)

Evolutionary Theories of Legal Change: Maine and Durkheim

(36)

Maine: From Status to Contract

(5)

Emile Durkheim: Legal Change and the Division of Labor

(9)

Durkheim on Crime

(9)

Critique and Discussion

(12)

Law, Class Conflict, and the Economy: Marxian Theory

(38)

Law and the State in the Classical Marxian Model

(8)

Two Marxian Analyses of Legal Change Under Capitalism

(13)

Beyond the Classical Marxian Model

(7)

Summary and Discussion

(7)

Law and the State: Max Weber's Sociology of Law

(34)

Weber's Model of Political Domination

102

(12)

The Basic Categories of Legal Thought

114

(7)

The Emergence of Formally Rational Law

121

(7)

Conclusion: Weber and the Fate of Formalism

128

(5)

The Problem of Law in the Activist State

133

(28)

Sociological Jurisprudence

135

(14)

Normative Theory

149

(5)

Doing Law: Toward a Model of Law in Action

154

(4)

Summary and Conclusions

158

(3)

PART TWO Legal Action

161

(60)

Voting Rights and School Desegregation

163

(22)

Voting Rights

165

(9)

Desegregating Schools

174

(11)

Equal Employment Opportunity

185

(36)

Policies in the 1960s and 1970s

187

(8)

The Weaknesses of EEO / AA Law

195

(3)

Impacts of EEO / AA Law

198

(11)

Conclusions: An Analytic Summary

209

(12)

PART THREE The Legal Profession

221

(58)

Law as a Profession

223

(30)

What Is a Profession?

224

(6)

Establishing a Monopoly on Legal Practice

230

(21)

Summary

251

(2)

The Transformation of Legal Practice in the Late Twentieth Century

253

(26)

Differentiation and Change in the Legal Profession

254

(12)

Gender and the Transformation of Legal Practice

266

(9)

Summary and Conclusions

275

(4)

References

279

(12)

Index

291

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