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Sociology Of Law

Instructor:
Janet P. Stamatel
437
Credits:
3.0
001
Building:
Whitehall Classroom Bldg
Room:
Rm.247
Semester:
Spring 2023
Start Date:
End Date:
Name:
Sociology Of Law
Requisites:

Prereq: SOC 339 or six hours of social science or consent of instructor.

Class Type:
LEC
9:30 am
10:45 am
Days:
TR

This class explores the fundamental roles that law plays in organizing contemporary social life. It considers various ways of understanding law's complex presence in society: how law shapes and enables social interaction, how law constructs differences among people and their actions, how law mediates and enforces power relationships, and how law matters for the kind of society we have. Official legal institutions (courts) and actors (judges, police, lawyers, etc.) will be examined, as well as how law works as a complex array of norms, symbols, discourses, and practices.

This class explores the fundamental roles that law plays in organizing contemporary social life. It considers various ways of understanding law's complex presence in society: how law shapes and enables social interaction, how law constructs differences among people and their actions, how law mediates and enforces power relationships, and how law matters for the kind of society we have. Official legal institutions (courts) and actors (judges, police, lawyers, etc.) will be examined, as well as how law works as a complex array of norms, symbols, discourses, and practices.

SOC