refers to both a sub-discipline of s, the Social Construction of legal issues, and the relation of law to social change. Sociology of law overlaps with Jurisprudence , Economic Analysis Of Law and more specialised subjects such as Criminology .Jary, ''Collins Dictionary of Sociology'', 636
in 1917 - Weber who began as a lawyer and economic historian is regarded as one of the founders of sociology and sociology of law]]
- Rottleuthner, ''Rechtstheoritische Probleme der Sociologie des Rechts'', 521 Around 1900 Max Weber defined his "scientific" approach to law, identifying the "legal rational form" as a type of domination, not attributable to people but to abstract norms.Rheinstein, ''Max Weber on Law and Economy in Society'', 336 Legal Rationalism was his term for a body of coherent and calculable law which formed a precondition for modern political developments and the modern bureaucratic state and developed in parallel with the growth of Capitalism .Jary, ''Collins Dictionary of Sociology'', 636 Another sociologist, Émile Durkheim , wrote in ''The Division of Labour in Society'' that as society becomes more complex, the body of civil law concerned primarily with restitution and compensation grows at the expense of criminal laws and penal sanctions.Johnson, ''The Blackwell Dictionary of Sociology, 156 Other notable early legal sociologists included Hugo Sinzheimer , Theodor Geiger , Georges Gurvitch and Leon Petrażycki in Europe, and William Graham Sumner in the U.S.Gurvitch, ''Sociology of Law'', 142
--- Papachristou, ''Sociology of Law'', 81–82
In legal studies, the sociology of law is part of a more broadly conceived Law And Society approach or Socio-legal Studies . Its focus is on theoretically guided empirical studies. As such it draws on and contributes to social theory. The sociology of law is not to be confused with Sociological Jurisprudence . The latter is a juristic perspective, developed in the United States by Roscoe Pound and by earlier jurists in various European countries, that seeks to base legal arguments on sociological insights.
perspectives need discussion.
- Marxism
- Types of authority and thought (Weber)
- Social organization and morality (Durkheim)
- Structural-Functionalism
- Comparative legal studies
- Critical legal studies
- Feminist and anti-racism theories
- Postmodern theories
- Other perspectives
To be described:
- Legal systems
- Legal institutions
- Law making (social construction of law and mores)
- Social control
- Dispute resolution
- Social change
- Legal profession
Related sociological subfields include Political Sociology and the Sociology Of Deviance . Other social sciences, such as Anthropology , Criminology , and Political Science , also include specialized approaches to the study of law.
- Reza Banakar and Max Travers, eds, ''An Introduction to Law and Social Theory''. Oxford: Hart, 2002
- Reza Banakar and Max Travers, eds, ''Theory and Method in Socio-Legal Research''. Oxford: Hart, 2005
- Roger Cotterrell, ''The Sociology of Law: An Introduction'' 2nd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press / Butterworths, 1992
- Roger Cotterrell, ''Law's Community: Legal Theory in Sociological Perspective'' Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995
- Vincenzo Ferrari, ed, ''Developing Sociology of Law: A World-Wide Documentary Enquiry''. Milano: Giuffre, 1990
- Michael Freeman, ed, ''Law and Sociology''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006
- Austin Sarat, ed, ''Blackwell Companion to Law and Society''. Malden, Mass. and Oxford: Blackwell, 2004
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