Social Problems, Law, and Society

This volume represents a critical, issue-oriented approach to law and society, emphasizing its important relationship to contemporary social problems. Various empirical studies within the text explore the contradictory dynamics of class as they relate to race and gender in both a national and global context, illustrating the dialectical interplay between the state and social movements in the context of the larger political economy.

Preface

vii

PART I: ESTABLISHING THE CONTEXT

1

(40)

1 Critical Perspectives on Law and Society: A Social Problems Approach

3

(16)

Richard A. Dello Buono

2 Law and Social Change: Bringing Social Movements into the Dialectic

19

(22)

A. Kathryn Stout

PART II: CRITICAL VIEWS ON SOCIAL PROBLEMS, CONFLICT, AND LAW: BEYOND CONSTRUCTIONISM

41

(84)

3 Ontological Gerrymandering: The Anatomy of Social Problems Explanations

45

(24)

Steve Woolgar and Dorothy Pawluch

Commentary on "Ontological Gerrymandering": Towards a Sociological Deconstruction of Social Problems

62

Stephen Pfohl

4 Deviant Behavior and the Remaking of the World

69

(18)

Frances Fox Piven

5 A Sociological Analysis of the Law of Vagrancy

87

(14)

William J. Chambliss

6 Law as a Weapon in Social Conflict

101

(8)

Austin T. Turk

7 Empiricism and the Critique of Marxism on Law and Crime

109

(16)

Piers Beirne

PART III: LAW AND CONFLICTS OF CLASS, RACE, AND GENDER

125

(108)

8 Legal Limits on Labor Militancy: U.S. Labor Law and the Right to Strike since the New Deal

129

(28)

Holly J. McCammon

9 The Racial Basis of Capitalism and the State, and the Impact of the New Deal on African Americans

157

(20)

Steve Valocchi

10 Promoting Civil Rights through the Welfare State: How Medicare Integrated Southern Hospitals

177

(26)

Jill Quadagno

11 Managing Differences and Making Legislation: Social Movements and the Racialization, Sexualization, and Gendering of Federal Hate Crime Law in the U.S., 1985-1998

203

(30)

Valerie Jenness

PART IV: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, DILEMMAS, AND STATE RESOLUTIONS

233

(72)

12 Negotiated Meanings and State Transformation: The Trust Issue in the Progressive Era

237

(26)

W. Lawrence Neuman

13 The New Politics of Immigration: "Balanced-Budget Conservatism" and the Symbolism of Proposition 187

263

(26)

Kitty Calavita

14 Acting Locally: Environmental Injustice and the Emergence of Grassroots Environmental Organizations

289

(16)

Sherry Cable and Michael L. Benson

PART V: PROBLEMS OF GLOBALIZATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS

305

(98)

15 Citizenship and Inequality: Historical and Global Perspectives

309

(24)

Evelyn Nakano Glenn

16 Transnational Mobilization and Civil Rights in Northern Ireland

333

(32)

Gregory M. Maney

17 Exploring the Organizational Dilemmas of Coercive State Conduct: Israel's Repression of the Palestinian Uprising

365

(22)

James Ron

18 The Space between Laws Revisited: Corporate Crime in a Transnational Context

387

(16)

Raymond J. Michalowski and Ronald C. Kramer

PART VI: EPILOGUE: A MODEL FOR FURTHER INVESTIGATION

403

(16)

19 The State, the Legal Order, and Social Problems

405

(14)

William J. Chambliss

Index

419

(8)

About the Contributors

427

(2)

About the Editors

429

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