| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 200 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Societal Stress: Theory, Meaning, and Measurement -- 1.1 Concepts and Knowledge -- 1.1.1 The Concept of Societal Stress -- 1.1.2 The Nature of Societal Stress -- 1.1.3 An Illustration of Societal Stress: Political Support for Donald J. Trump -- 1.2 Structural-Functionalism Theory -- 1.3 The Expression in Law of the Concept of Societal Stress -- 1.4 Empirical Indicators of Societal Stress -- 1.4.1 Rate of Incarceration for Crime -- 1.4.2 Suicide Rate -- 1.4.3 Total Fertility Rate |
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1.5 Drivers and Consequences of Societal Stress -- 1.6 Law Content as a Source of Societal Stress -- 1.7 The Plan of the Book -- 1.8 Logistic Regression and Its Role in the Book -- Appendix 1. Research on the Impact of Law -- Appendix 2. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 -- Chapter 2: The Constitution and State Law on Interracial Marriage -- 2.1 The Federal Constitution and Personal Rights -- 2.2 The Fourteenth Amendment and Race Distinctions -- 2.2.1 Brown v. Board of Education -- 2.2.2 Loving v. Virginia -- 2.3 A Study of State Bans on Interracial Marriage -- 2.3.1 Variables and Their Measurement |
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2.3.1.1 Dependent Variable -- 2.3.1.2 Independent Variables -- 2.3.2 Data Analysis -- 2.3.2.1 Regression Models -- 2.3.2.2 Model 2A and Model 2C -- 2.4 Conclusion -- Appendix: State Law That as of December 12, 1966 -- Prohibited Interracial Marriage -- Chapter 3: Sex and the Equal Rights Amendment -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.1.1 The Likely Social Effect of the ERA -- 3.1.2 A Macrosociological Account of the ERA -- 3.1.3 Change in the Social Status of American Women After 1950 -- 3.2 Macrosociological Agents Driving State Opposition to the ERA -- 3.2.1 Dependent Variable |
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3.2.2 Independent Variables -- 3.2.3 Data Analysis -- 3.2.3.1 nonrat -- 3.2.3.2 nonratres -- 3.2.4 Summary -- 3.3 American Society and the ERA -- Chapter 4: Same-Sex Marriage -- 4.1 Same-Sex Marriage in the United States -- 4.1.1 Law on Same-Sex Marriage -- 4.1.2 Attitudes in the United States Toward Same-Sex Marriage -- 4.2 Macrosociological Causes of the Content of State Law on Same-Sex Marriage -- 4.2.1 Dependent Variable -- 4.2.2 Independent Variables -- 4.2.3 Data Analysis -- 4.3 Conclusion -- Appendix. State Law on the Sex Composition of Couples Allowed to Marry: June 26, 2015 |
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Chapter 5: Wrapping Up -- 5.1 The Rationale for the Concept of Societal Stress in Scholarship on Law -- 5.2 The Studies of Societal Stress and Law: A Synthesis of Findings -- 5.3 Societal Stress and Law: Topics for Future Inquiry -- 5.4 China and the ̀̀One-Birth ́́Policy -- 5.5 Some Final (But Important) Points -- Index |
| Summary |
Societal Stress and Law draws attention to the social side effects of law by developing the sociological concept of society-level stress, a corollary of the concept of individual-level stress in the biological sciences. To encourage interest in societal stress, the book looks at (1) instances of law adopted by American states that the U.S. Supreme Court held unconstitutional and (2) actions by American states with regard to a proposal to amend the federal Constitution. The Court rulings and the proposed constitutional amendment were capable of producing societal stress because they were seen by a sizeable segment of the U.S. public as being incompatible with significant American traditions. In original studies that apply logistic regression to state-level statistical data, the book identifies sociological variables that predict state differences in the adoption of this law and state differences in actions on the proposed constitutional amendment. Because these variables represent societal agents that affected whether a state experienced social stress from the rulings and proposal, the book blends theory with empirical research and illustrates how each can support the other in law-focused scholarship |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Sociological jurisprudence -- United States
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Law and the social sciences -- United States
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Law and the social sciences
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Sociological jurisprudence
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783031308758 |
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3031308751 |
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