Law/Society: Origins, Interactions, and ChangeA core text for the Law and Society or Sociology of Law course offered in Sociology, Criminal Justice, Political Science, and Schools of Law. * John Sutton offers an explicitly analytical perspective to the subject - how does law change? What makes law more or less effective in solving social problems? What do lawyers do? * Chapter 1 contrasts normative and sociological perspectives on law, and presents a brief primer on the logic of research and inference as it is applied to law related issues. * Theories of legal change are discussed within a common conceptual framework that highlights the explantory strengths and weaknesses of different arguments. * Discussions of "law in action" are explicitly comparative, applying a consistent model to explain the variable outcomes of civil rights legislation. * Many concrete, in-depth examples throughout the chapters. |
Contents
The Problem of Law in the Activist State | 133 |
Voting Rights and School Desegregation | 163 |
Equal Employment Opportunity | 185 |
Law as a Profession | 223 |
The Transformation of Legal Practice in | 253 |
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