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Record Nr.

UNINA9910337695003321

Autore

Barnett Larry D

Titolo

Societal Agents in Law : Quantitative Research / / by Larry D. Barnett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

9783030020040

3030020045

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 pages)

Disciplina

340.115

Soggetti

Social sciences - Philosophy

Sociology

Political sociology

Law - Philosophy

Law - History

Sociology - Methodology

Social Theory

Sociological Theory

Political Sociology

Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History

Sociological Methods

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Statistical Aspects of Macrosociological Research on Law -- Chapter 2. Jurymen, Jurywomen, and Law -- Chapter 3. "Thou Shall Not Commit Adultery": The Decriminalization of a Marriage-Endorsing Directive -- Chapter 4. Penal Sanctions and Their Societal Setting: When Law Embraces Death -- Chapter 5. Race, Interstate Migration, and Employment Discrimination Law -- Chapter 6. Religious Freedom Restoration Law.

Sommario/riassunto

In this two-volume set, Larry D. Barnett delves into the macrosociological sources of law concerned with society-important social activities in a structurally complex, democratically governed nation. Barnett explores why, when, and where particular proscriptions



and prescriptions of law on key social activities arise, persist, and change. The first volume, Societal Agents in Law: A Macrosociological Approach, puts relevant doctrines of law into a macrosociological framework, uses the findings of quantitative research to formulate theorems that identify the impact of several society-level agents on doctrines of law, and takes the reader through a number of case analyses. The second volume, Societal Agents in Law: Quantitative Research, reports original multivariate statistical studies of sociological determinants of law on specific types of key social activities. Taken together, the two volumes offer an alternative to the almost-total monopoly oftheory and descriptive scholarship in the macrosociology of law, comparative law, and history of law, and underscore the value of a mixed empirical/theoretical approach. .