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law and power  

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  • The relationship between law and power is central to the sociology of law and implicated in most of the approaches that one finds in law and society research. Power occupied the attention of sociology's founding fathers—Karl Marx (1818–1883), Max Weber (1864–1920), and Émile Durkheim (1858–1917)—and continues to be central to the field. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives; Power, Law And]

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