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Law/society : origins, interactions, and change / John R. Sutton.

By: Series: Sociology for a new centuryPublication details: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Pine Forge Press, 2001.Description: xvii, 301 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0761987045 (c : acidfree paper)
  • 0761987053 (p : acidfree paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 340.115 22 SUT
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Table of Contents
1. An Introduction to the sociology
The from a sociological perspective
What is the sociological of law

PART ONE LEGAL CHANGE
2 Evolutionary theories of legal change
Maine: From status to contract
Emile Durkheim: Legal change and the divisions of labor
Durkheim on crime
Critique and discussion

3. LAW, CLASS CONFLICTS AND THE ECONOMY
Marxian theory
Law and the state in the classical Marxian model
Two Marxian analyses of legal change under capitalism
Beyond the classical Marxian

4 LAW AND THE STATE
Max Weber's sociology of law
Weber's model of political domination
The basic categories
The emergence of formally rational law

5 THE PROBLEM OF LAW IN THE ACTIVIST STATE
Sociological Jurisprudence
Normative theory
Doing law: towards a model of law in action

PART TWO LEGAL ACTION
6. Voting rights and school desegregation voting rights

7 EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
Policies in the 1960s and 1970s
The weakness of EEO / AA law
Impact of EEO / AA law

PART THREE THE LEGAL PROFESSION
8 Law as a profession
Establishing a monopoly on legal practice

9 The transformation of legal practice in the late twentieth century
Differentiation and change in the legal profession
Gender and transformation of legal practice

Includes Index p. 291-301

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