User:Reswik/Sociology/sociology of law outline

This outline is based on contents of some sociology of law and political sociology texts:

=Outline of Sociology of law article=

History

 * Foundations
 * Sociological Movement in Law

Perspectives

 * Marxism
 * Types of authority and thought (Weber)
 * Social organization and morality (Durkheim)
 * Structural-Funcationalism
 * Critical legal studies
 * Comparative legal studies
 * Feminist theories
 * Postmodern theories
 * Other perspectives

Selected Topics

 * Legal systems
 * Legal institutions
 * Law making (social construction of law and mores)
 * Social control
 * Dispute resolution
 * Social change
 * (summarize here?; mainly deal with in political sociology?)
 * broad trends: industrialization; globalization
 * politics and revolutions
 * activism and social movements
 * Legal profession

Research methods

 * Historical
 * Observation
 * Survey
 * Quasi-experiment
 * Policy and evaluation research