User:Reswik/Sociology/sociology of law outline
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This outline is based on contents of some sociology of law and political sociology texts:
Outline of Sociology of law article
Introduction
History
- Foundations
- Sociological Movement in Law
Perspectives
- Marxism
- Types of authority and thought (Weber)
- Social organization and morality (Durkheim)
- Structural-Funcationalism
- Critical legal studies
- Comparative legal studies
- Feminist theories
- Postmodern theories
- Other perspectives
Selected Topics
- Legal systems
- Legal institutions
- Law making (social construction of law and mores)
- Social control
- Dispute resolution
- Social change
- (summarize here?; mainly deal with in political sociology?)
- broad trends: industrialization; globalization
- politics and revolutions
- activism and social movements
- Legal profession
Research methods
- Historical
- Observation
- Survey
- Quasi-experiment
- Policy and evaluation research
See also
- Lists
- Related topics
References
Further reading
External links
Notes on Sociology of law article
Perhaps the perspectives and selected topics sections should be merged?