Law and Social Change: The Semi-Autonomous Social Field as an Appropriate Subject of Study
Law and Social Change: The Semi-Autonomous Social Field as an Appropriate Subject of Study
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DOI:
10.2307/3052967
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发表时间:
1973-01
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Sally Falk Moore
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作者:
Sally Falk Moore
In our highly centralized political system, with its advanced technology and communications apparatus, it is tempting to think that legal innovation can effect social change. Roscoe Pound perceived the law as a tool for social engineering (1965: 247-252). Some version of this idea is the current rationale for most legislation. Underlying the social engineering view is the assumption that social arrangements are susceptible to conscious human control, and that the instrument by means of which this control is to be achieved is the law. In such