Law/society : origins, interactions, and change /
John R. Sutton.
- Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Pine Forge Press, 2001.
- xvii, 301 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Sociology for a new century .
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