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Law and Society (9th Edition) (MySearchLab Series 15% off) | 
| Author: Steven Vago
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Category: Book
List Price: $97.80
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 8969
Media: Paperback
Edition: 9
Pages: 512
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.3
ISBN: 0132318857
Dewey Decimal Number: 340.115
EAN: 9780132318853
ASIN: 0132318857
Publication Date: January 27, 2008
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Product Description
Law and Society, 9th edition provides an informative, balanced and comprehensive analysis of the interplay between law and society. This text presents an overview of the most advanced interdisciplinary and international research, theoretical advances, ongoing debates and controversies. It raises new levels of awareness on the structure and functions of law and legal systems and the principal players in the legal arena and their impact on our lives.
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| Customer Reviews:
A job well done July 25, 2000
Prof. R. Paris (Arlington, Texas United States)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is an excellent textbook. The language is clear, the ideas well exposed, and the subject covered in a most satisfactory manner. The sixth edition I have read contains an extensive and very useful bibliography. I'd recommend it whoheartedly for undergraduate courses on the topic. Some minor criticisms: first, I would have liked the section on theoretical perspectives to be more extensive, while the chapter on methods seems to me to be superflous, at least for undergraduates. Second, at the bottom of page 232, the information give is confusing. It talks about tons, without specifying whether metric or not. Further, it uses ounces, pounds and kilos, all very unclear. Thirdly, the sections on the socialist system are obsolete, insofar as those systems have practically disappeared. And, yes, although the author claims, at the bottom of p.1 that he has followed an eclectic apporach, "without embracing or advocating a particular position, ideology, or theoretical stance", the truth is that I feel I detect a very subtle but, nonetheless recognizable, "leftish" leaning. But those are minor shortcomings, whcih shrink to nothing in comparison with the very positive achievements of the textbook. Kudos!
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