In this two-volume set Larry D. Barnett delves into the macrosociological sources of law
concerned with society-important social activities in a structurally complex democratically
governed nation. Barnett explores why when and where particular proscriptions and
prescriptions of law on key social activities arise persist and change. The first volume
Societal Agents in Law: A Macrosociological Approach puts relevant doctrines of law into a
macrosociological framework uses the findings of quantitative research to formulate theorems
that identify the impact of several society-level agents on doctrines of law and takes the
reader through a number of case analyses. The second volume Societal Agents in Law:
Quantitative Research reports original multivariate statistical studies of sociological
determinants of law on specific types of key social activities. Taken together the two volumes
offer an alternative to the almost-total monopoly of theory and descriptive scholarship in the
macrosociology of law comparative law and history of law and underscore the value of a mixed
empirical theoretical approach.
