I just saw information on Pluri-Legal about a new book that might interest readers and members:
Social and Legal Norms: Towards a Socio-legal Understanding of Normativity
Edited by Matthias Baier, Lund University,
Sweden
In an era where new areas of life and new
problems call for normative solutions while the plurality of values in society
challenge the very basis for normative solutions, this book looks at a growing
field of research on the relations between social and legal norms. New technologies
and social media offer new ways to communicate about normative issues and the
centrality of formal law and how normativity comes about is a question for
debate. This book offers empirical and theoretical research in the field of
social and legal norms and will inspire future debate and research in terms of
internationalization and cross-national comparative studies. It presents a
consistent picture of empirical research in different social and organizational
areas and will deepen the theoretical understanding regarding the interplay
between social and legal norms.
Including chapters written from four different aspects of normativity, the contributors argue that normativity is a result of combinations between law in books, law in action, social norms and social practice. The book uses a variety of different international examples, ranging from Sweden, Uzbekistan, Colombia and Mexico.
· Contents:
Introduction, Matthias Baier; Part I Norms and Normativity: Can
legal sociology account for the normativity of law?, Reza Banakar; Norms in law
and society: towards a definition of the socio-legal concept of norms, Måns
Svensson; Relations between social and legal norms, Matthias Baier; Parallel
norm creating processes, Karsten Åström. Part II Norms in Perspective: Norms
about norms - a Hartian perspective, Karl Dahlstrand; Institutions and norms in
collaboration: towards a framework for analyzing law and normativity in
inter-organizational collaboration, Susanna Johansson; Conceptions, categories,
and embodiment - why metaphors are of fundamental importance for understanding
norms, Stefan Larsson; Spatializing social and legal norms: street vending
regulation in Acapulco, Mexico, Lucas Pizzoltto Konzen. Part III Norms and
Actors: Social workers linking together family norms and child protection
norms, Eva Friis; Meta-norms in complex situations: the pedagogy of
recognition, Lars Persson; School principals’ norms - between law and action,
Ulf Leo; ‘Souls of fire’, change agents and social norms, Per Wickenberg. Part
IV Norms and Structures: Legal and social norms for development: why legal
reform of the informal economy failed to influence vulnerable groups in
developing countries, Ana Maria Vargas Falla; Framing normality. An eye-catcher
on the Swedish Labour Court, Eva Schömer; Corruption in a culture of money:
understanding social norms in post-Soviet Uzbekistan, Rustamjon Urinboyev and
Måns Svensson; On legal complexity: between law in books and planning in
practice, Stefan Larsson; Studying norms and social change in a digital age:
identifying and understanding a multidimensional gap problem, Marcin de
Kaminski, Måns Svensson, Stefan Larsson, Johanna Alkan Olsson and Kari Rönkkö.
Part V Socio-Legal Normativity: Towards a socio-legal understanding of
normativity, Matthias Baier; Index
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