THE SOCIOLOGY OF LAW  (Hardcover, Pat Carlen (Ed))

This book is partly constitutive of the major theme which predominates the analysis of law as a mode of reproduction of social order. Some of the articles additionally emphasise the pedagogic dimension and effectivity of that mode, others emphasise its rhetorical dimension. The contributors to this book do not claim to be identically engaged in the same ideological enterprise. The authors are lawyers, one is political scientist with some training, the rest are sociologists. None of them, however, claims to have written from a position of scientific neutrality. Each of them hopes that the articles produced here will contribute to a scientific knowledge of law within capitalism.