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Selznick Interviewed: Philip Selznick in Conversation with Roger Cotterrell
Author(s) -
Cotterrell Roger
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of law and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.263
H-Index - 48
eISSN - 1467-6478
pISSN - 0263-323X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6478.2004.00292.x
Subject(s) - pragmatism , sociology , communitarianism , conversation , epistemology , sociology of law , focus (optics) , social science , law , philosophy , political science , physics , communication , optics , politics , liberalism
Philip Selznick enjoys world‐wide respect as a sociologist and, unusually among prominent contemporary sociological theorists, he has made law a main focus of his work. A leading pioneer of Anglo‐American legal sociology since the 1950s, he has pursued a distinctive scholarly approach, founded in Deweyan pragmatism, that treats ideals and values as fundamental concerns of social science, integral to its methods and aims. This orientation was first developed in his work in the sociology of organizations and is central to his sociology of law and to his writings since the 1980s on communitarianism, which combine philosophical and sociological analysis.