Social Cohesion and Legal Coercion : : A Critique of Weber, Durkheim, and Marx / / Leon Shaskolsky Sheleff.

• Superior document: Value Inquiry Book Series ; 44
• VerfasserIn: Sheleff, Leon Shaskolsky,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden;, Boston : : BRILL,, 1997.
• Year of Publication: 1997
• Language: English
• Series: Value Inquiry Book Series ; 44.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (27 pages)
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

The book is a critical analysis of the work of Max Weber, Emile Durkheim and Karl Marx. It focuses on their separate analyses of the role of law in society, pointing out their faults and errors, and the resultant impact on modern social science. The author takes issue with Weber's work on rationality, with Durkheim's work on repressive and restitutive law, and with Marx's work on social justice and law as part of the super-structure. In each section of the book he shows the implications that flow from a re-assessment and re-interpretation of their work for an understanding of society. The book is multi-disciplinary, making ample reference to law, sociology, anthropology, history, religion, ecology, criminology, philosophy and economics. Its various chapters discuss a wide range of themes, including rationality, tradition, science, political authority, conflict resolution, community, justice and altruism.

Table of Contents

Editorial Foreword by Robert Ginsberg -- PREFACE -- Chapter One: ON LAW AND SOCIETY -- PART 1: WEBER REVISITED -- Chapter Two: ON RATIONALITY AND LIBERALISM -- Chapter Three: ON BUREAUCRACY AND POLITICAL AUTHORITY -- Chapter Four: ON TRADITION AND PRIMITIVISM -- Chapter Five: ON RELIGION AND SCIENCE -- PART 2: DURKHEIM REVERSED -- Chapter Six: ON HARMS AND REMEDIES -- Chapter Seven: ON COMPROMISE AND RECONCILIATION -- Chapter Eight: ON MORALITY AND SOCIAL CONTROL -- Chapter NINE: ON CRIME AND ECOLOGY.