Overview
Sociology of Law: Research Project Paper (RPP) Instructions
1. Your RPP topic may be chosen from the course syllabus section Summary of Topics. 2. The RPP topic you choose will be evaluated for an applicable US Constitutional Right (i.e., refer to the US Constitution’s Bill of Rights) of your choice. 3. Your RPP / evaluation utilizes any one of the following theoretical perspectives: Marx, Weber or Durkheim. Optionally, you may choose also include relevant case studies. 4. The textbook is a great source for your RPP / evaluation. 5. The RPP / evaluation is five (5) pages of text and double spaced using the most recent version of the APA manual. Margins are .5: Top, Bottom, Left, and Right. Font is Arial 12 point. 6. Your paper will include an additional two (2) pages: Title Page and Reference page. 7. Your RPP will include eight (8) citations to peer-reviewed scholarly articles using the UNIVERSITY library databases. Your RPP will include the required citations within the text of your five (5) pages and their corresponding references within the Reference page of your RPP. 8. The RPP will be emailed to my email address as listed in the syllabus, 9. The RPP and the RPP attached file will be named as the Subject Line listed in the syllabus with the exception the suffix of the subject line will be RPP and not QC. 10. The email submission will ONLY include an attached WORD .docx or ADOBE PDF file. 11. The email submission body of the email will also include a cut and paste copy of the attached file contents.
The class Research Project Paper (RPP) is a research project report that is a TEN page paper with TEN references using scholarly peer reviewed journal articles and an eleventh page of references. The paper must be formatted according to the A.P.A. publication manual and submitted via email and according to the Research Project Paper guidelines for the completion standards for the research project paper that will be provided in the Class Document named ‘Research Project Paper and Structure Rules’ when the assignment is announced in class. The research paper/project will examine topics such as those included in the syllabus section:
Summary of Topics to be Covered Summary of topics to be covered: The Sociology of Law; Foundational Works on Law and Society; Ancient Law; Laws; Folkways and Mores; The Sociological Movement in Law; The Path of the Law; A Survey of Social Interests; The Marxian Perspective; Debates on the Law on Thefts of Wood; Commodity Form and Legal Form: An Essay on the “Relative Autonomy” of the Law; The Place of Law in the Marxian Structure-Superstructure Archetype; The Weberian Perspective; ; Categories of Legal Thought; The Concept of Legitimation in the Sociology of Law; Max Weber on Law and the Rise of Capitalism; The Durkheimian Perspective; The Evolution of Punishment; Law and Durkheimian Order: An Empirical Examination of the Convergence of Legal and Social
Definitions of Law; Punishment and Social Organization: A Study of Durkheim’s Theory of Penal
Evolution; 7 Structural-Functionalism; The Law and Social Control; Three Levels of Functioning of Law; Conflict Theory; A Sociological Analysis of the Law of Vagrancy; Law as a Weapon in Social Conflict; Critical Legal Studies; Form and Substance in Private Law Adjudication; An Essay in the Deconstraction of Contract Doctrine; and The Sociology of Law at Century’s End
I will provide you with a link to the library to choose the articles from, the topic to be chosen is totally up to you.
Please no AI or plagiarism.