Syllabus (SOCIOLOGY)

Course Type: SEC-1

Semester: 1

Course Code: BSOCSEC01T

Course Title: Law and Society

(L-P-Tu): 3

Credit: 3

Practical/Theory: Theory

Course Objective: Objectives of this course are • Giving students a fundamental grasp of how law and society interact • Informing students about legal concerns • This course gives students the idea they need to interact with important legal issues of society.

Learning Outcome: By completing this course students will be able to • Understand the nature of law • Conceptualise law as a social phenomenon • Understand the relationship between law and justice • Create employment opportunity in the legal or rights based organis

Contents of the Course

1. Introduction to Sociology of Law

Emergence, Nature and Scope of Sociology of Law

Basic Concepts – Norms, Values, Deviance and Crime – Causes, Punishment,Law and Justice

2. Law and Crime

Types of crime, Contemporary trends in crime, Civil and Criminal disputes resolution

3. Agencies of Law: Community, State and Non- state

4. Law in Everyday life: Perception and Application

Readings and References

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2. Milovanovic, D. (2003). An Introduction to the Sociology of Law. Monsey, NY: Criminal Justice Press.
3. Calavita, K. (2016). Invitation to law and society: An introduction to the study of real law. University of Chicago Press.
4. Mathieu, D. (2008). Sociology of Law visions of a Scholarly Tradition. Cambridge University Press.
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7. Bix, B. (1996). Jurisprudence: Theory and Context. Sweet & Maxwell
8. Meyerson, D. (2009). Understanding Jurisprudence. Routledge.
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10. Hydén, H. (2022). Sociology of Law as the Science of Norms (p. 338). Taylor & Francis.
11. Cotterrell, R. (2017). Sociological Jurisprudence: Juristic Thought and Social Inquiry. Routledge.
12. Sutton, J. (2001). Law/society: Origins, interactions, and change (Vol. 474). Pine Forge Press.
13. Lawson, T., Heaton, T., Lawson, T., & Heaton, T. (1999). Crime and Deviance, Macmillan.
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16. Anleu, S. L. R. (2009). Law and Social Change. Sage.
17. Cotterrell, R. (2013). Law, Culture and Society: Legal Ideas in the Mirror of Social Theory. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
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19. Sethi, M. (2019). Communities and courts: religion and law in modern India. South Asian History and Culture, 10(2), 109-123.
20. Gilmartin, D. (2010). Rule of Law, Rule of Life: Caste, Democracy, and the Courts in India. The American Historical Review, 115(2), 406-427.
21. Srivastava, N. (2021). State, courts and energy resources in India: revisiting permanent sovereignty over natural resources. Indian Journal of International Law, 59(1-4), 209-228.
22. Vatuk, S. (2013). The “women's court” in India: an alternative dispute resolution body for women in distress. The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, 45(1), 76-103.
23. Jassal, N. (2020). Gender, law enforcement, and access to justice: Evidence from all-women police stations in India. American Political Science Review, 114(4), 1035-1054.
24. Subramaniam, M., & Krishnan, P. (2016). Stranded between the law, family, and society: Women in domestic violence and rulings of India’s Supreme Court. Current Sociology, 64(4), 603-619.