The article summarizes the international development of sociology of law in connection with its situation in Brazil. A pioneer experiment in socio-juridical empirical research and graduate teaching — ...

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 ...

Because jurisprudence and sociology share a concern with normative phenomena, either field can profit by examining the conceptual schemes of the other. In this instance conceptual integration is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stanton Wheeler, former master of Morse College and Ford Foundation Professor Emeritus of Law and the Social Sciences, died of complications from a cardiovascular condition at the Hospital of St.