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Work and Family in the United States
A Critical Review and Agenda for Research and Policy
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Now considered a classic in the field, this book first called attention to what Kanter has referred to as the "myth of separate worlds." Rosabeth Moss Kanter was one of the first to argue that the assumes separation between work and family was a myth and that research must explore the linkages between these two roles.
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, where she specializes in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change.
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Law and the Social Sciences
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The notion of law as a social phenomenon would have surprised educators and scholars a century ago. For them, law was a science and the library was the ultimate source of all legal knowledge. Our contemporary willingness to see law in a social context—reflecting social relations, for example, or precipitating social changes—is a relatively recent development, spurred during the last quarter century by the work of a generation of scholars (mostly social scientists and law professors) who believe the perspectives of the social sciences are essential to a better understanding of the law.
Law and the Social Sciences provides a unique and authoritative assessment of modern sociolegal research. Its impressive range and depth, the centrality of its concerns, and the stature of its contributors all attest to the vitality of the law-and-society movement and the importance of interdisciplinary work in this field.
Each chapter is both an exposition of its author’s point of view and a survey of the pertinent literature. In treating such topics as law and the economic order, legal systems of the world, the deterrence doctrine, and access to justice, the authors explore overlapping themes—the tension between public and private domains, between diffused and concentrated power, between the goals of uniformity and flexibility, between costs and benefits—that are significant to observers not only of our legal institutions but of other social systems as well.
LEON LIPSON was Henry R. Luce Professor Emeritus of Jurisprudence and Paul C. Tsai Professorial Lecturer in Law at Yale University.
STANTON WHEELER was Ford Foundation Professor Emeritus of Law and the Social Sciences and professorial lecturer in law at Yale University.
CONTRIBUTORS: Richard L. Abel, Shari Seidman Diamond, Phoebe C. Ellsworth, Mark Galanter, Julius G. Getman, Jack P. Gibbs, Jeffrey L. Jowell, Edmund W. Kitch, Leon Lipson, Stewart Macaulay, David R. Mayhew, Sally Falk Moore, Austin D. Sarat, Richard D. Schwartz, Stanton Wheeler.