Legal socialization: Back to the future. (5th June 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Tyler, Tom R.
• Other Names: Trinkner Rick guestEditor.; Reisig Michael D. guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: Journal of social issues. Volume 77:Number 2(2021)
• Page Start: 663
• Page End: 676
• Publication Date: 2021-06-05
• Subjects: Social problems -- Periodicals; Social psychology -- Periodicals; United States -- Social conditions -- 1945- -- Periodicals; Sociology; Psychology, Social; Problèmes sociaux -- Périodiques; Psychologie sociale -- Périodiques; États-Unis -- Conditions sociales -- 1945- -- Périodiques; Sociale psychologie; Electronic journals; 305
• DOI: 10.1111/josi.12456
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0022-4537

Abstract

Abstract: The articles in this volume highlight resurgence of interest in the topic of legal socialization. Legal and moral socialization was central to the writing of classic social theorists around the beginning of the 20th century, and was an important research topic in the 1970s. It has been less widely studied in recent decades. Renewed attention to legal socialization today is a result of both developments in psychology and of emerging societal issues. In particular, a renewed societal focus on how to create a viable and sustainable social order has again drawn attention to legal socialization. In response, as this volume illustrates, psychologists have increased and broadened their efforts to understand legal socialization. They have addressed the issue using new theoretical models, have considered a broader set of sources of socialization, and have paid heightened attention to the experience of traditionally marginalized members of society.