DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Bachelor's Degree in Sociology and Social Work
Academic Year 2016/2017 - 3° Year - L-39 Curriculum and L-40 Curriculum

SOCIOLOGIA DEL DIRITTO

Teaching Staff

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