Sociology
Embracing Eclecticism
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Since its emergence as a field of study, law and society scholarship has grown to encompass an array of disciplines, perspectives, methods, and political orientations. A consequence of this disciplinary hypostatization has been to produce a scholarly goulash which, while at times nourishing, now faces the dual dangers of institutional fracture and intellectual incoherence. The aim of this essay is to map a way to embrace the eclecticism that characterizes the field and yet avoid the dangers of dilettantism and to cultivate the interdisciplinarity its founders envisioned without sacrificing a sense of shared purpose or abandoning the possibility of collectively producing a better understanding of law. © 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Publication Title
Studies in Law Politics and Society
Publication Date
12-4-2007
Volume
41
First Page
1
Last Page
18
ISBN
9780762314607
DOI
10.1016/S1059-4337(07)00001-4
Repository Citation
Ewick, Patricia, "Embracing Eclecticism" (2007). Sociology. 50.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_sociology/50