Sociology of law / Dragan Milovanovic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milovanovic, Dragan, 1948- author.

Contributor:

Milovanovic, Dragan, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociological jurisprudence.

Physical Description:

xiii, 494 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Place of Publication:

Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, LLC, [2022]

Summary:

"Sociology of Law introduces readers to an interdisciplinary understanding of law. It orients the reader to the field and encourages critical dialog. The earlier chapters develop key conceptual tools in studying the content of chapters that follow. Part 1 includes orientations, law in action, and the three classic thinkers-Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Karl Marx. Part 2 includes chapters on sociological jurisprudence, critical legal studies and their offsprings, structural functionalism, semiotics and law, socio-legal semiotics, postmodernism, and post-postmodernism. The orientation of the book is critically constructive, with an eye toward examining what is, particularly the included and excluded voices in law, and how things can be otherwise. It challenges conventional understanding of how law functions. It situates the field in a historically evolving context and particular political economies. It can be used both at the undergraduate and graduate levels as well as in law school. General readers seeking a general understanding, as well as researchers seeking a reference resource for a comprehensive statement with which to engage, will find the book essential reading"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Orientations and Classical Foundations for Sociology of Law

1. The Discipline of Sociology of Law

Introduction

Contributions to the Sociology of Law

Defining the Domain of Inquiry

Definition of Law

Conflict v. Consensus Approaches in Law and Beyond

Law and Justice

Forms of Law

Summary

Review Questions

Endnotes

2. Law in Action

Functions of Law

Law and Fulfillment of Social Values

Law and the Rise of the Legal Profession

Law, Social Movements, and Social Change

3. Emile Durkheim: Toward a Systematic Sociology of Law

Evolution of Society and Social Solidarity

The Abnormal Forms

Form of Law, Contract and Legal Thought

Property

4. Max Weber: Law in Economy and Society

Denning Law

Capitalism and Law

Forms of Law and Legal Thought

Formally Irrational Law

Substantively Irrational Law

Formal Rationality

Substantively Rational Law

"Insoluble Conflict": Formal versus Substantive Rationality

Domination and Law

Capitalism, Bureaucracy and Rationalization

The Contract and the Juridic Subject

Freedom and Coercion in Law

5. Karl Marx: Law in a Socio-Political Economy

Marxist Perspectives

Mode of Production and Law

Marxist Perspectives, Instrumental and Structural

Domination, Form of Law and the Juridic Subject

Pashukanis and Commodity-Exchange: Commodity and Legal Fetishism

Transformation, Use-Value to Exchange-Value

Commodification of the Legal Form

"Legitimate" Domination

Late Capitalism

Property and Contract

The Withering Away of the State, Law and the Juridic Subject

Dialectics of Struggle

pt. 2 Perspectives in the Sociology of Law

6. Sociological Jurisprudence and Critical Legal Studies: The First Wave

Sociological Jurisprudence and Legal Realism

Sociological Jurisprudence: Roscoe Pound

Legal Realism: Realistic Jurisprudence

Critical Legal Studies

Theoretical Orientation

Common Focal Points

Substantive Issues

CLS and Deconstruction

CLS and Reconstruction

Criticism of CLS: Setting the Seeds for the New

7. Critical Approaches in Law: Spawnings, Second Wave

Feminist Jurisprudence

Perspectives in Feminist Jurisprudence

Women's Rights Movements

Case Material: Landmark Decisions Concerning Gender

Equality Theory and Sexual Difference

Feminist Legal Methods

Critical Race Theory

Historical Development

Basic Tenets

Method: Jurisprudence of (in) Color

Further Spawnings of New Identity Groups

Lat-Crits

Asian-Crits

Queer-Crits

Tribal-Crits

Intersectionality and the Law: Defining "Diverse Student Bodies"

Intersectionality, Identity Groups and Alternative Conceptualization: Seeking Commonalities

8. Structural Functionalism, Autopoiesis and the Behavior of Law

Structural Functionalism and the Sociology of Law

Talcott Parsons: Integrated Systems and the Sociology of Law

Niklas Luhmann: Structural Functionalism and the Sociology of Law

Adam Podgorecki: Empiricism, Social Engineering and Sociology of Law

Autopoiesis and Law

Structural Coupling

The Behavior of Law and the Sociology of the Case

The Behavior of Law

The Sociology of the Case

9. Semiotics and Law

Legal Semiotics

C.S. Peirce (1839

1914)

Ferdinand de Saussure (1857

1913)

Louis Hjelmslev (1899

1965)

Algirdas Greimas (1917

1992), Greimasian Legal Semiotics

Narrative Coherence Model of Law (Bernard Jackson)

Speech-Act Theory

Critical Legal Semiotics and Sociology of Law

Expressive Forms of Legal Semiotics: Visual, Rhetoric, Audio

Visual Legal Semiotics

Visual Rhetoric

Audio Legal Semiotics

10. Socio-Legal Semiotics in Sociology of Law

Social Semiotics, Socio-Legal Semiotics

Critical Discourse Studies

Critical Socio-Legal Semiotics

Resurgence of a Materialist Marxist Semiotics

Toward Critical Methodologies in Legal Semiotics

Material Marxist Semiotics in Sociology of Law: Toward a Revisionist Structural Interpellationist Variant

Materialism and Hegemonic Practices

Linguistic Coordinate Systems

Material-Based Linguistic Coordinate Systems

Linguistics, Hegemony and Reality Construction

Applications of the Semiotic Approach in the Sociology of Law: A Structural Interpellation View

Moving Forward

11. Postmodern Contributions to Sociology of Law

Jacques Lacan and Psychoanalytic Semiotics in Law

Three Primal Orders

Semiotic Axes, Embodying Desire and Anchoring Points

Subjectivity and Discourse

Lacan's Four Discourses

Lacan's Late Work: Borromean Knots, Sinthome Law

Lacanian Postmodern Feminist Law

Contributions to Postmodern Perspectives in Law

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844

1900)

Michel Foucault (1926

1984)

Jacques Derrida (1930

2004)

Jean-Francois Lyotard (1924

1998)

Richard Rorty (1931

2007)

Gilles Deleuze (1925

1995)

Complexity Theory and Law

Constitutive Law

12. Post Postmodern Perspectives

Legal Materiality

Posthumanist Feminism and New Materiality

Green Jurisprudence and Rights of Nature: Do Rivers, Trees, Rain Forests, Animals and Plants Have Rights?

Quantum-Informed Sociology of Law

Classical v. Quantum Ontologies

Double-Slit Experiment

Quantum Decision-Making in Law

Karan Barad and Sociomateriality

Quantum Semiotics in Sociology of Law

Quantum Holographic Semiotics of Law

Phase Conjugation (Phase Conjugate Adaptive Resonance, PCAR)

Schema QD

Legal Assemblage and Quantum Holography

Endnotes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Related Work:

Milovanovic, Dragan, 1948- Primer in the sociology of law.

Other Edition:

Revision of: 1881798402. Milovanovic, Dragan, 1948- 3rd ed. Monsey, N.Y. : Criminal Justice Press, 2003.

Other Format:

Online version: Milovanovic, Dragan. Sociology of law

ISBN:

9781611638820

1611638828

OCLC:

1313444417