| Invitation to Law and Society, Second Edition: An Introduction to the Study of Real Law Contributor(s): Calavita, Kitty (Author) |
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ISBN: 022629644X ISBN-13: 9780226296449 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $47.52 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Law |
| Dewey: 340.115 |
| LCCN: 2015018041 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.6" W x 8.4" (0.80 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Law and society is a rapidly growing field that turns the conventional view of law as mythical abstraction on its head. Kitty Calavita brilliantly brings to life the ways in which law is found not only in statutes and courtrooms but in our institutions and interactions, while inviting readers into conversations that introduce the field's dominant themes and most lively disagreements. Deftly interweaving scholarship with familiar examples, Calavita shows how scholars in the discipline are collectively engaged in a subversive expos of law's public mythology. While surveying prominent issues and distinctive approaches to both law as it is written and actual legal practices, as well as the law's potential as a tool for social change, this volume provides a view of law that is more real but just as compelling as its mythic counterpart. With this second edition of Invitation to Law and Society, Calavita brings up to date what is arguably the leading introduction to this exciting, evolving field of inquiry and adds a new chapter on the growing law and cultural studies movement. |
Contributor Bio(s): Calavita, Kitty: - Kitty Calavita is chancellor's professor emerita in the Departments of Criminology, Law and Society, and Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. She is coauthor, most recently, of Appealing to Justice: Prisoner Grievances, Rights, and Carceral Logic. |