Concept information
Preferred term
sociology of law
Definition
- Sociology of law (or legal sociology) is the systematic, theoretically grounded, empirical study of law as a set of social practices or as an aspect or field of social experience. As such, it draws on the whole range of traditions, methods, and theories associated generally with sociological inquiry.The Nature of Sociology of LawThe nature of sociology of law (SL) depends on its relations with, on the one hand, sociology, and on the other, law, as knowledge fields. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives; Sociology of Law]
Narrower concepts
- access to justice
- autonomy of law
- cause lawyers
- colonization as legal transplants
- commodification
- communications revolution
- communications systems
- comparative law and justice
- conflict pyramid
- developments in legal professions
- discretion in legal decision making
- functions of law
- gap problem
- globalization and law in everyday life
- global legal culture
- government lawyers
- honor
- industrialization
- informal law
- labeling theory
- law firms
- lawyers as politicians
- legal borrowing and reception as transplants
- legal culture
- legal education
- legal ethics
- legal exports as transplants
- legal knowledge
- legal practice and new technology
- legal relativity
- legal socialization
- legitimation
- mirror theory
- mixed legal systems
- penetration of law
- popular culture and law
- reciprocity
- reflexive and autopoietic law
- risk society
- sanctions
- social change and law
- social conflict
- sociological theories of law
- sociology of voluntary acts
- sport
- symbols in law
- trade unions
- visual communication in and about law
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/sociology_of_law
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