Law/Society : Origins, Interactions, and Change

List of Tables ix List of Figures x Foreword xi Preface xiii Acknowledgments xvii An Introduction to the Sociology of Law 1(22) The Two Faces of Law 4(4) Law From a Sociological Perspective 8(6) What Is the Sociology of Law? 14(9) PART ONE Legal Change 23(138) Evolutionary Theories of Legal Change: Maine and Durkheim 25(36) Maine: From Status to Contract 26(5) Emile Durkheim: Legal Change and the Division of Labor 31(9) Durkheim on Crime 40(9) Critique and Discussion 49(12) Law, Class Conflict, and the Economy: Marxian Theory 61(38) Law and the State in the Classical Marxian Model 64(8) Two Marxian Analyses of Legal Change Under Capitalism 72(13) Beyond the Classical Marxian Model 85(7) Summary and Discussion 92(7) Law and the State: Max Weber's Sociology of Law 99(34) Weber's Model of Political Domination 102(12) The Basic Categories of Legal Thought 114(7) The Emergence of Formally Rational Law 121(7) Conclusion: Weber and the Fate of Formalism 128(5) The Problem of Law in the Activist State 133(28) Sociological Jurisprudence 135(14) Normative Theory 149(5) Doing Law: Toward a Model of Law in Action 154(4) Summary and Conclusions 158(3) PART TWO Legal Action 161(60) Voting Rights and School Desegregation 163(22) Voting Rights 165(9) Desegregating Schools 174(11) Equal Employment Opportunity 185(36) Policies in the 1960s and 1970s 187(8) The Weaknesses of EEO / AA Law 195(3) Impacts of EEO / AA Law 198(11) Conclusions: An Analytic Summary 209(12) PART THREE The Legal Profession 221(58) Law as a Profession 223(30) What Is a Profession? 224(6) Establishing a Monopoly on Legal Practice 230(21) Summary 251(2) The Transformation of Legal Practice in the Late Twentieth Century 253(26) Differentiation and Change in the Legal Profession 254(12) Gender and the Transformation of Legal Practice 266(9) Summary and Conclusions 275(4) References 279(12) Index 291