SOCIOLOGIA DEL DIRITTO
Academic Year 2019/2020 - 3° YearCredit Value: 6
Scientific field: SPS/12 - Sociology of law, deviance and social change
Taught classes: 48 hours
Term / Semester: 2°
Detailed Course Content
The tradition and the problems of discipline
The differentiation of legal rules from social norms
The differentiation of sociological knowledge with respect legal doctrines
The sociological concept of legal culture
The positivization process of law and the language dependency of legal phenomena: the legal culture
The characters of positivised law
The theory of action and the normative dimension of the social system
The law as structure of the social systems
Textbook Information
Banakar, B. (2011), “The sociology of law”, Sociopedia.isa, DOI: 10.1177/205684601134
Banakar, R. and Travers, M. (2005), Theory and Method in Socio-Legal Research, (Oxford: Hart Publishing)
Kurkchiyan, M. (2012), “Comparing Legal Cultures: Three Models of Court for Small Civil Cases”, in Nelken, D. (ed.), Using Legal Culture, (London: Wildy), pp. 210-250
Merry, S.E. (2012), “What is Legal Culture? An Anthropological Perspective”, in Nelken, D. (ed.), Using Legal Culture, (London: Wildy), pp. 32-76
Nelken, D. (2012a) “Using Legal Culture: Purpouses and Problems, in Id., (ed.), Using Legal Culture, (London: Wildy)
Silbey, S. (2010), “Legal Culture and Cultures of Legality”, Hall J. R., and Grindstaff L., and Ming-cheng Lo, Handbook of Cultural Sociology, (Oxford: Routledge), pp. 470-479
Von Benda Beckmann, F. and K., (2012) “Why not ‘Legal Culture’?”, in Nelken, D. (ed.), Using Legal Culture, (London: Wildy), pp.86-103