Social Construction of Law

Social Construction of Law
Title Social Construction of Law PDF eBook
Author Michael Giudice
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing
Pages 160
Release 2020-10-30
Genre Law
ISBN 1839103221

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This illuminating book explores the theme of social constructionism in legal theory. It questions just how much freedom and power social groups really have to construct and reconstruct law.

International Law as Social Construct

International Law as Social Construct
Title International Law as Social Construct PDF eBook
Author Carlo Focarelli
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 628
Release 2012-05-24
Genre Law
ISBN 0199584834

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This book explores international law as a social construct by analysing its social foundations and by re-conceptualizing the way in which it is commonly understood. It asks what law is and how it works in society, and shows why it is worth to struggle for new and better-working rules in the international legal order.

A Philosophy of the Social Construction of Crime

A Philosophy of the Social Construction of Crime
Title A Philosophy of the Social Construction of Crime PDF eBook
Author David Polizzi
Publisher Policy Press
Pages 104
Release 2016
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1447327322

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This book situates the social construction of crime and criminal behaviour within the philosophical context of phenomenology and explores how these constructions inform, and justify, the policies employed to address them. It is essential reading for academics and students interested in social theory and theories of criminology.

The Social Construction of Crime: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

The Social Construction of Crime: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
Title The Social Construction of Crime: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide PDF eBook
Author Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 14
Release 2010-05-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0199803706

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This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of criminology find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated related. A reader will discover, for instance, the most reliable introductions and overviews to the topic, and the most important publications on various areas of scholarly interest within this topic. In criminology, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need. This ebook is a static version of an article from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Criminology, a dynamic, continuously updated, online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through scholarship and other materials relevant to the study and practice of criminology. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.aboutobo.com.

The Social Construction of Reality

The Social Construction of Reality
Title The Social Construction of Reality PDF eBook
Author Peter L. Berger
Publisher Open Road Media
Pages 313
Release 2011-04-26
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1453215468

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A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced “a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally” (George Simpson, American Sociological Review). In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is preserved and altered within a society. Unlike earlier theorists and philosophers, Berger and Luckmann go beyond intellectual history and focus on commonsense, everyday knowledge—the proverbs, morals, values, and beliefs shared among ordinary people. When first published in 1966, this systematic, theoretical treatise introduced the term social construction,effectively creating a new thought and transforming Western philosophy.

Human Rights as Social Construction

Human Rights as Social Construction
Title Human Rights as Social Construction PDF eBook
Author Benjamin Gregg
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 271
Release 2011-12-12
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1139505416

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Most conceptions of human rights rely on metaphysical or theological assumptions that construe them as possible only as something imposed from outside existing communities. Most people, in other words, presume that human rights come from nature, God, or the United Nations. This book argues that reliance on such putative sources actually undermines human rights. Benjamin Gregg envisions an alternative; he sees human rights as locally developed, freely embraced, and indigenously valid. Human rights, he posits, can be created by the average, ordinary people to whom they are addressed, and that they are valid only if embraced by those to whom they would apply. To view human rights in this manner is to increase the chances and opportunities that more people across the globe will come to embrace them.

The Social Construction of Sexual Harassment Law

The Social Construction of Sexual Harassment Law
Title The Social Construction of Sexual Harassment Law PDF eBook
Author Mia Cahill
Publisher Routledge
Pages 81
Release 2020-08-26
Genre Law
ISBN 1000160246

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This title was first published in 2001. The global legal landscape is littered with attempts to provide context and meaning for sexual harassment law. Most have failed because they have limited themselves to the mere words of law. This cross-national study is the first to expand our notion of sexual harassment law and implementation by exposing the relationship between law and its social context, demonstrating how this fundamentally influences legal understandings and outcomes. Taking a unique theoretical approach, this book explores perceptions of law within national, corporate and the individual contexts, analyzing the potentials of each level to influence the social understanding of law and the wider role of law in society itself. The result is a pioneering work of fresh insight which will appeal to a broad range of academic disciplines.