SOCIOLOGIA DEL DIRITTO

Academic Year 2016/2017 - 3° Year - Curriculum Curriculum L-39 and Curriculum Curriculum L-40
Teaching Staff
  • ISSUES AND OUTLOOKS OF DISCIPLINARY TRADITION: Carlo Pennisi
  • Sociological and Legal Knowledge in the Contemporary Social Systems : Carlo Pennisi
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: SPS/12 - Sociology of law, deviance and social change
Taught classes: 48 hours
Term / Semester:

Learning Objectives

  • ISSUES AND OUTLOOKS OF DISCIPLINARY TRADITION
    To present basic guidelines for the traditional problems of the sociology of law, the theoretical and methodological tools of the tradition in the sociological study of the law and the debate with the legal knowledge.
  • Sociological and Legal Knowledge in the Contemporary Social Systems
    To present the positivization process of Modern and Contemporary Law, the characters of its institutionalization and differentiation from other social systems

Detailed Course Content

  • ISSUES AND OUTLOOKS OF DISCIPLINARY TRADITION

    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

  • Sociological and Legal Knowledge in the Contemporary Social Systems

    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

  • ISSUES AND OUTLOOKS OF DISCIPLINARY TRADITION

    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)

  • Sociological and Legal Knowledge in the Contemporary Social Systems

    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