Law and Social Change by Sharyn L Roach Anleu

Law and Social Change by Sharyn L Roach Anleu

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A guide to the sociology of law, surveying current theoretical debates and examining socio-legal research. Sharyn L Roach Anleu explores the relationship between the law and other aspects of social life. She critically analyzes law as a social institution and social process, focusing on broad and general patterns.

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Law and Social Change by Sharyn L Roach Anleu

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.
′Undoubtedly succeeds as a text.. Its value as a text rests on its ability to integrate an accessible style with numerous examples from varied jurisdictions which students from both the legal and sociological disciplines will benefit enormously from. Accordingly, this book comes highly recommended′ - International Journal of the Sociology of Law
Sharyn L. Roach Anleu is Associate professor in the Department of Sociology, Flinders University, Australia
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ISBN 13 9780803975354
ISBN 10 080397535X
Title Law and Social Change
Author Sharyn L Roach Anleu
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Sage Publications Ltd
Year published 2000-02-26
Number of pages 288
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