Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction: sociology, society, law -- Recovering the sociology of law -- Sociology of law: a preliminary classification -- Themes and structure: an overview -- Objectives -- Part I Theoretical foundations of the sociology of law -- 1 Law and the rise of the social sciences -- The dawn of the social sciences -- The perspective of historical materialism -- The early sociologists -- Conclusion -- 2 Max Weber on the rationalization of law -- Interpretive sociology -- Ideal-type and elective affinity -- The rationalization of society: economy, politics, and bureaucracy -- The rationality of modern law -- The legacy of Weber -- Conclusion -- 3 Emile Durkheim on law and social solidarity -- The science of society -- The social division of labor -- Law and the evolution of society -- Law and rights -- Law and punishment -- The legacy of Durkheim -- Conclusion -- Part II Development and variations of the sociology of law -- 4 The theoretical move towards the sociological study of law -- From scientific jurisprudence to legal sociology: the Eastern-European tradition -- The sociological movement in law: European perspectives -- From the psychology to the sociology of law -- Conclusion -- 5 From sociological jurisprudence to sociology of law -- The sociological movement in law: the American tradition -- The legal origins of the sociology of law -- The modernization of classical sociology: Talcott Parsons -- The legacy of structural functionalism -- Conclusion -- 6 Sociology of law and the antinomies of modern thought -- Sociological conflict theory -- Towards a critical sociology of law -- Normativity in the sociology of law: jurisprudential sociology -- The expulsion of normativity: pure sociology -- Micro-theoretical perspectives in the sociology of law.

Behavioral perspectives in the sociology of law -- Conclusion -- Part III Sociological dimensions of law -- 7 Law and economy: the regulation of the market -- Variations of institutionalism -- Law and organizations: beyond law and economics -- The regulation of business -- Corporate legality -- The political economy of welfare law -- Conclusion -- 8 Law and politics: the role of democratic law -- Law between legality and legitimacy: discourse theory -- Law beyond politics and morality: autopoiesis -- Democracy and law: theoretical variations -- Democratic deficits of law -- Conclusion -- 9 Law and integration: the legal profession -- Law as a profession -- The transformation of the legal profession -- The diversification of jurisprudence: Critical Legal Studies -- Researching the legal profession: the case of gender inequality -- Conclusion -- 10 Law and culture: the balance of values through norms -- Values and norms: from Durkheim to Habermas -- Postmodernism and deconstruction in theory -- Postmodernism and deconstruction in law -- Legal inequalities: class, gender, and race and ethnicity -- Laws of body and self: the regulation of health and intimacy -- Conclusion -- Part IV Special problems of law -- 11 Social control: the enforcement of law -- The concept of social control -- Discipline and governmentality -- Police and policing -- Technologies of surveillance -- The process of punishment -- Conclusion -- 12 The globalization of law -- Theorizing law and globalization -- Global legality: from lawmaking to law speaking -- Global control: the dynamics of world policing -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: Visions of the sociology of law -- Cultures of the sociology of law -- Boundaries of the sociology of law -- Bibliography -- Index.