What is this edited collection about? The book is intended as an ambitious, large-scale overview of the current scope of sociology of law, surveying its range of intellectual concerns and discussing ...

The new Law and Society Minor in Sociology moves beyond the abstract study of legal rules and doctrines to investigate the dynamic relationship between law and the social world. Rather than focusing ...

Cambridge University Press (www.cambridge.org) is the publishing division of the University of Cambridge, one of the world’s leading research institutions and winner of 81 Nobel Prizes. Cambridge ...

Claudia Williams '11 recalled the moment she attended her first Introduction to Sociology class (SOC 1101) when she arrived at Bowdoin in 2007. “It was like a lightbulb clicked on,” she said. “I felt ...

Vilfredo Pareto’s Treatise on General Sociology has long been considered one of the seminal works of modern sociology. One list even ranked it among the hundred most influential books ever written in ...

One of the most influential Brazilian thinkers in social sciences, Luiz Werneck Vianna explored topics such as democracy, Brazil’s modernization, and the judicialization of politics. He was ...

Lauren Edelman, the Agnes Roddy Robb Professor of Law and Sociology at Berkeley Law, died of pneumonia Feb. 7. According to Catherine Albiston, a colleague at Berkeley Law, Edelman was a pioneer for ...

Students may choose to delve into a specialized area of study, or Concentration. The Concentrations include Health, Medicine, and Wellbeing; Social Justice and Policy; Crime, Law, and Power; and ...