1st Edition

Sociology of Law

By Georges Gurvitch Copyright 2001
380 Pages
by Routledge

380 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge

Georges Gurvitch occupies an interesting position in the development of the sociology of law. In the period immediately preceding its quantitative expansion, he produced an explicitly conceived systematic theoretical intervention. What is particularly significant about Gurvitch's Sociology of Law at first appears as a contradiction. His work has had very little lasting impact on developments... Read more
THE OBJECT AND PROBLEMS OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF LAW, THE FORERUNNERS AND FOUNDERS OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF LAW. CONTEMPORARY CURRENTS, SECTION II. The Founders of the Sociology of Law , SECTION III. Some other present day currents, SYSTEMATIC SOCIOLOGY OF LAW (MICROSOCIOLOGY OF LAW) SECTION I. Forms of Sociality and Kinds of Law , SECTION II. Jural Sociology as a Description of the Depth-levels (The Layers of Law), DIFFERENTIAL SOCIOLOGY OF LAW (JURAL TYPOLOGY OF PARTICULAR GROUPINGS), SECTION I. Classification of Social Groupings, SECTION II. Differentiation of Frameworks of Law as Functions of Types of Groups, SECTION III. Sovereignty” and the Relations of Various Jural Orders, (LEGAL TYPOLOGY OF ALL-INCLUSIVE SOCIETIES.), GENETIC SOCIOLOGY OF LAW, SECTION I. Regularities as Tendencies of Change SECTION II. Factors, Intrinsic and Extrinsic, Conclusion - SOCIOLOGY OF LAW AND PHILOSOPHY OF LAW

Biography

Georges Gurvitch (1894-1965) held the chair of sociology at the Sorbonne from 1949 until his death. During the war years, he taught at the New School for Social Research. He was the author of numerous works in the sociology of law including Le Temps Present et l'Idue du Droit Social, L'Experience Juridique et la Philosophe Pluraliste do Droit, and The Bill of Social Rights.