Teacher(s)
Language
French
Main themes
This course aims to recognise and situate the role of legal rules in the social context, and present the way in which sociology addresses and studies social phenomena in relation to the legal framework of a particular society. The course teaches students to recognise real social phenomena to which the formal legal rule relates, and to analyse the way in which this rule applies to define, regulate or prohibit those phenomena. The theoretical approach will be accompanied by the presentation of the results of the main empirical research.
The course will cover the main relevant sociological concepts for an approach to social phenomena which are subject to regulation by the law.
It considers the social processes of construction of the legal rule, and the complex relationship between social phenomena and the evolution of the law.
It takes account of the issue of the way the people as a whole respond to the law (representations, knowledge, compliance with the law, modification of behaviour, etc.), its application by the authorities (judicial practices, sentencing, etc.) and its effects.
It will present certain sociological aspects connected with the various fields of law, in particular family law, social law, commercial law, penal law, health law, etc.
Bibliography
Une liste d'articles et de livres pertinents sera fournie en début de cours.
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