Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these works of functional analysis in chronological order.
- Luhmann, Rechtssoziologie, 1972
- Parsons, The Social System, 1951
- Bobbio, Dalla struttura alla funzione, 1977
- Ihering, Der Zweck im Recht, 1877
- Durkheim, De la division du travail social, 1893
Hints
- The two nineteenth-century entries are sixteen years apart.
- The two entries from the 1970s close the sequence.
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- Ihering, Der Zweck im Recht, 1877
- Durkheim, De la division du travail social, 1893
- Parsons, The Social System, 1951
- Luhmann, Rechtssoziologie, 1972
- Bobbio, Dalla struttura alla funzione, 1977
Why
A century separates the first from the last, and the shape of the question changes across it. Ihering and Durkheim ask what law does for a society; Parsons and Luhmann ask how it does it as a system; Bobbio turns the question back on legal theory and asks why the discipline had stopped asking.
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