This major textbook provides a clear and comprehensive guide to the sociology of law, surveying current theoretical debates and examining socio-legal research. Exploring the relationship between the law and other aspects of social life, it goes beyond a discussion of contemporary institutions, focusing on broad and general patterns grounded in specific examples from a wide range of contexts. The book addresses: the social conditions under which laws emerge and are changed; the extent to which law can be a resource to implement social change; the kinds of values or world views that laws incorporate; and, the ways in which laws shape social institutions and practices and vice versa. Accessible and wide-ranging, "Law and Social Change" provides an invaluable introduction to, and critical analysis of law as a social institution and social process.
- ISBN10 1857022858
- ISBN13 9781857022858
- Publish Date 31 December 1999
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint Fourth Estate Ltd
- Format eBook (UK Trade)
- Pages 288
- Language English