Product Description: Year by year, law seems to penetrate ever larger realms of social, political, and economic life, generating both praise and blame. Nonet and Selznick's Law and Society in Transition explains in accessible language the primary forms of law as a social, political, and normative phenomenon...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Professor Jenkins develops a systematic theory of the origins, the ends, and the functions of law. He then applies this theory to the problems that law encounters and the conditions that it must satisfy if it is to be an effective force in society...read more

Product Description: An introductory level text designed to explain and review basic ideas concerning the role of law in society. Assuming no previous knowledge of the field, the volume examines the theoretical and empirical dimensions of law in society from political, sociological, psychological and philosophical perspectives...read more

Product Description: "How to inform the judicial mind," Justice Frankfurter remarked during the school desegregation cases, "is one of the most complicated problems." Social research is a potential source of such information. Indeed, in the 1960s and 1970s, with activist courts at the forefront of social reform, the field of law and social science came of age...read more

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Product Description: An introduction to a range of different approaches to the study of law. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Law in Our Lives provides a broad, interdisciplinary "mapping" of the nature of law as a social institution. Themes addressed in this student-oriented text include: The meaning of law and legal reasoning. Law in relation to justice, morality, and religion. Explaining law and society: schools of jurisprudence and sociolegal theories. Major legal traditions and systems of law. Perspectives on comparative law. A life in the legal profession. An overview of legal institutions and processes. Legal culture and beliefs about law and legal behavior. Legal ethics. Legal socialization. How law has been reformed. Emerging attributes of law in the 21st century. Pedagogical features include the following: Combines readability with contemporary controversies to capture and sustain student interest. Integrates numerous examples to illuminate concepts and perspectives. Lists key terms. Includes discussion questions. Features boxes, tables, and figures. Offers a case briefing guide. Includes an extensive reference section. No other text offers students a more comprehensive introduction to understanding law and society.

Product Description: The exiled Russian sociologist and legal scholar Nicholas S. Timasheff's place in the forefront of the sociology of law was established with the publication, in 1939, of An Introduction to the Sociology of Law. His magnum opus articulates a systematic legal sociology...read more

Product Description: One of the great ironies in contemporary sociology of law is that despite Talcott Parsons' enormously influential role as 'the midwife of modern sociology', coupled with his three decades of focused and sustained analysis of the legal system's location in a total and complex society, it is nothing short of appalling that his particular social systems approach to law has been largely neglected...read more

Product Description: Information technology has served to revolutionise the use, exchange, and protection of information. The growth of the internet, the convergence of technologies as well as the development of user generated and social networking sites has meant that significant amounts of person data as well as copyrighted materials are now readily accessible...read more

Product Description: Few thinkers can have had a more diverse or a more contested impact on theorizing law than Michel Foucault. This diversity is reflected in the wide range of Foucault's work and of the intellectual fields it has so conspicuously influenced...read more

Product Description: Large law firms have become a dominant feature of the legal landscape in the United States and elsewhere. This volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society examines the situation of large law firms. The articles collected here address the following questions: How has the large law firm altered, or adapted to, the ideals/ideology of the legal profession? How do law firms function as organizations? What happens to firms when they globalize their practices? What is the situation of scholarship on large law firms? Has the firm been incorporated into boarder interdisciplinary configurations? What, if any, new paradigms of study of firms are on the horizon...read more

Product Description: Almost without realizing it, we have shifted toward an all-digital culture. Future heirlooms like family photos, home movies, and personal letters now exist only in digital form, and in many cases they are stored using popular services like Flickr, YouTube, and Gmail...read more

Product Description: Ever since H.L.A. Hart's self-description of The Concept of Law as an 'exercise in descriptive sociology', contemporary legal theorists have been debating the relationship between legal theory and sociology, and between legal theory and social science more generally...read more

Product Description: ALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that you select the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist for each title, including customized versions for individual schools, and registrations are not transferable...read more