Reza Banakar

En autoritativ indføring i retssociologiens vigtigste teorier og temaer. Bogen gennemgår den retssociologiske tradition fra klassikere som bl.a. Weber og Durkheim til samtidige teorier og sætter fokus på centrale områder af den juridiske verden, som betragtes i en sociologisk optik. Kapitlerne er skrevet af forskere og eksperter på tværs af de skandinaviske lande, og hvert kapitel er ledsaget af oversættelser af kernetekster i den retssociologiske tradition. Retssociologi udkommer nu i en grundigt revideret 2. udgave, hvor flere kapitler og kernetekter er nye. Ole Hammerslev er professor på Syddansk Universitet, og Mikael Rask Madsen er professor på Københavns Universitet.

Law is everywhere - Rätten finns överallt. Det uttrycket kan beskriva rättens roll i våra liv. Utöver formella lagar, regleringar och avtal möter vi i vår vardag även informella lagar och sociala normer: i familjen, i skolan, på arbetsplatsen och i samhället i stort. De styr både hur vi tänker och agerar och vad vi förväntar oss av andra. Rättssociologi handlar om att analysera relationen mellan rätten och samhället. I den här boken beskrivs hur rättssociologiska begrepp kan tillämpas på en praktisk nivå, i forskning om och studier av samhället. Konkreta exempel visar hur teoretiska och metodologiska begrepp har tillämpats i olika rättssociologiska studier. Begreppen blir därmed nyttiga verktyg för en ökad förståelse av samhället från ett rättssociologiskt perspektiv. Om rättssociologisk tillämpning är en fortsättning på Baier, Svensson & Nafstads Om rättssociologi (2018). Böckerna är tänkta för studenter på grundnivå i rättssociologi, men kan vara intressanta även för studerande i andra discipliner, som kriminologi, sociologi och juridik. Även forskare, lärare och praktiker kan ha glädje och nytta av böckerna.

The field of socio-legal research has encountered three fundamental challenges over the last three decades – it has been criticized for paying insufficient attention to legal doctrine, for failing to develop a sound theoretical foundation and for not keeping pace with the effects of the increasing globalization and internationalization of law, state and society. This book examines these three challenges from a methodological standpoint. It addresses the first two by demonstrating that legal sociology has much to say about justice as a kind of social experience and has always engaged theoretically with forms of normativity, albeit on its own empirical terms rather than on legal theory’s analytical terms. The book then explores the third challenge, a result of the changing nature of society, by highlighting the move from the industrial relations of early modernity to the post-industrial conditions of late modernity, an age dominated by information technology. It poses the question whether socio-legal research has sufficiently reassessed its own theoretical premises regarding the relationship between law, state and society, so as to grasp the new social and cultural forms of organization specific to the twenty-first century’s global societies.

Iran has one of the highest rates of road traffic accidents worldwide and according to a recent UNICEF report, the current rate of road accidents in Iran is 20 times more than the world average. Using extensive interviews with a variety of Iranians from a range of backgrounds, this book explores their dangerous driving habits and the explanations for their disregard for traffic laws. It argues that Iranians' driving behaviour is an indicator of how they have historically related to each other and to their society at large, and how they have maintained a form of social order through law, culture and religion. By considering how ordinary Iranians experience the traffic problem in their cities and how they describe traffic rules, laws, authorities and the rights of other citizens, Driving Culture in Iran provides an original and valuable insight into Iranian legal, social and political culture.

The field of socio-legal research has encountered three fundamental challenges over the last three decades – it has been criticized for paying insufficient attention to legal doctrine, for failing to develop a sound theoretical foundation and for not keeping pace with the effects of the increasing globalization and internationalization of law, state and society. This book examines these three challenges from a methodological standpoint. It addresses the first two by demonstrating that legal sociology has much to say about justice as a kind of social experience and has always engaged theoretically with forms of normativity, albeit on its own empirical terms rather than on legal theory’s analytical terms. The book then explores the third challenge, a result of the changing nature of society, by highlighting the move from the industrial relations of early modernity to the post-industrial conditions of late modernity, an age dominated by information technology. It poses the question whether socio-legal research has sufficiently reassessed its own theoretical premises regarding the relationship between law, state and society, so as to grasp the new social and cultural forms of organization specific to the twenty-first century’s global societies.