Den studerar normativitetens roll i rättssociologisk forskning och tittar också på de utmaningar som de sociokulturella konsekvenserna av globaliseringen utgör för den moderna rätten.
Boken utforskar metodfrågor från ett doktrinärt samt ett tvärvetenskapligt perspektiv och kartlägger utvecklingen av lag och rättssociologisk forskning från industrialiseringen till globaliseringen.
Den söker också efter former av regleringar som effektivt kan möta utmaningarna från dagens globala nätverkssamhälle.
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Abstract:
The field of socio-legal research has encountered three fundamental challenges over the last three decades – it has been criticized for paying insufficient attention to legal doctrine, for failing to develop a sound theoretical foundation and for not keeping pace with the effects of the increasing globalization and internationalization of law, state and society.
This book examines these three challenges from a methodological standpoint. It addresses the first two by demonstrating that legal sociology has much to say about justice as a kind of social experience and has always engaged theoretically with forms of normativity, albeit on its own empirical terms rather than on legal theory’s analytical terms. The book then explores the third challenge, a result of the changing nature of society, by highlighting the move from the industrial relations of early modernity to the post-industrial conditions of late modernity, an age dominated by information technology.
It poses the question whether socio-legal research has sufficiently reassessed its own theoretical premises regarding the relationship between law, state and society, so as to grasp the new social and cultural forms of organization specific to the twenty-first century’s global societies.