Sociology consists of many specialties or subfields such as the sociology of deviance,
medical sociology, the sociology of education, urban sociology, the sociology of the family …

While social theory and legal theory were once closely intertwined, contemporary American
sociology pays scant attention to recent developments in legal theory. But the problems that …

Since the classic contributions of Weber and Durkheim, the sociology of law has raised key
questions on the place of law in society. Drawing together both theoretical and empirical …

The recent publication of the second edition of Roger Cotterrell's introduction to the
sociology of law offers one indication of the way in which sociology of law has now become …

This article and bibliography is a trend report on the discipline of the Sociology of Law that
criticically reviews some recent published literature in this field seen by the writer to be of …

The challenge from the sociology of law appears in several guises but all involve
demonstrating the connections between law and other social forms. The sociology of law …

Law and its countless legal, academic, professional and institutional manifestations, all
being intrinsically social, fall within the scope of sociological inquiry. It is, therefore, not …

Contemporary sociology of law is characterized by a confusion of science and policy. Its
analysis proceeds in the disembodied tongue of science, in the language of" system,"" …

The sociology of law, a new science, studies human behavior in society in so far as it is
determined by commonly recognized ethico-legal norms, and in so far as it influences them …

To understand the development of the sociology of law in America, one should view it in the
context of a society characterized by three fundamental conflicts. First, American society …