Title: The Sociology of law :
Authors: Evan, William M.
Date: 1980
Publisher: Free Press,
Physical description: xvi, 653 pages ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: K
Contents: Law and legal institutions / Paul Bohannan -- The study of law in society / C.M. Campbell and Paul Wiles -- Jurisprudence and sociology of law / R.B.M. Cotterrell -- The boundaries of legal sociology / Donald Black -- For jurisprudential sociology / Philippe Nonet -- The law and social control / Talcott Parsons -- A survey of social interests / Roscoe Pound -- Group interests / Thomas A. Cowan -- The Marx-Engels theory of law / Hans Kelsen -- Law as a weapon in social conflict / Austin T. Turk -- Legal socialization / June Louin Tapp and Felice J. Levine -- Dynamics of the legal process / James P. Vanyo -- The fugitive slave law / Jane H. Pease and William H. Pease -- Value conflicts in the law of evidence / William M. Egan -- Support for the legal system / Austin Sarat -- The impact of certainty and severity of punishment / George Antunes and A. Lee Hunt -- "He who does not steal from the state ... / Otto Ulč -- Evaluating contract compliance / Gregory J. Ahart --^ One day in the life of a trial judge / Lois G. Forer -- Lawyers' ethics / Jerome E. Carlin -- The legislator as representative / Heinz Eulau -- Regulatory commissioners and party politics / Stuart S. Nagel -- Implementation of judicial decisions / Lawrence Baum -- Organization theory and the explanation of important characteristics of congress / Lewis A. Froman Jr. -- Power as process in regulation / Laura Nader and David Serber -- Types of lawmaking and lawfinding / Max Weber -- Legal system evolution: an analytical model / Jonathan H. Turner -- Social change and the law of industrial accidents / Lawrence M. Friedman and Jack Ladinsky -- Civil liberties issues in public data banks / Alan F. Westin -- Influence of Christianity on western law / Harold J. Berman -- From free to indissoluble to terminable marriage / Max Rheinstein -- Due process and college students / William Van Alstyne -- Politics and law enforcement in China: 1949-1970 / Lung-Sheng Tao --^ Power and authority in the family / Mary Ann Glendon -- A cross-national analysis of legal systems / William M. Evan -- Law and politics in the international society / Werner Levi -- Law as an instrument of social change / William M. Evan -- The use of social research in the courts / Sharon M. Collins -- Deterrence regained: the Cheshire constabulary's "breathalyser blitz" / H. Laurence Ross -- Untouchability and the law / Marc Galanter
Subject headings (LCSH): Sociological jurisprudence.