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Social Problems, Law, and Society

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ISBN-10: 0742542076

ISBN-13: 9780742542075

Edition: 2004

Authors: Kathryn A. Stout, Richard A. Dello Buono, William Chambliss

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Various empirical studies within this text explore the contradictory dynamics of class as they relate to race & gender in both a national & global context, illustrating the dialectical interplay between the state & social movements in the context of the larger political economy.
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List price: $72.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/14/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 10.22" wide x 9.86" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.672

Establishing the context
Critical perspectives on law and society : a Social problems approach
Law and social change : bringing social movements into the dialectic
Critical views on social problems, conflict, and law : beyond constructionism
Ontological gerrymandering : the anatomy of social problems explanations
Commentary on "ontological gerrymandering" : towards a sociological deconstruction of social problems
Deviant behavior and the remaking of the world
A sociological analysis of the law of vagrancy
Law as a weapon in social conflict
Empiricism and the critique of Marxism on law and crime
Law and conflicts of class, race, and gender
Legal limits on labor militancy : U.S. labor law and the right to strike since the New Deal
The racial basis of capitalism and the state, and the impact of the New Deal on African Americans
Promoting civil rights through the welfare state : how Medicare integrated southern hospitals
Managing differences and making legislation : social movements and the racialization, sexualization, and gendering of federal hate crime law in the U.S., 1985-1998
Social movements, dilemmas, and state resolutions
Negotiated meanings and state transformation : the trust issue in the progressive era
The new politics of immigration : "balanced-budget conservatism" and the symbolism of Proposition 187
Acting locally : environmental injustice and the emergence of grassroots environmental organizations
Problems of globalization and human rights
Citizenship and inequality : historical and global perspectives
Transnational mobilization and civil rights in Northern Ireland
Exploring the organizational dilemmas of coercive state conduct : Israel's repression of the Palestinian uprising
The space between laws revisited : corporate crime in a transnational context
Epilogue : a model for further investigation
The state, the legal order, and social problems