Insiders, Outsiders, Injuries, and Law: Revisiting 'The Oven Bird's Song' - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1316638480 ISBN 13 : 9781316638484

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2018

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A central theme of law and society is that people's ideas about law and the decisions they make to mobilize law are shaped by community norms and cultural context. But this was not always an established concept. Among the first empirical pieces to articulate this theory was David Engel's 1984 article, 'The Oven Bird's Song: Insiders, Outsiders, and Personal Injuries in an American Community'. Over thirty years later, this article is now widely considered to be part of the law and society canon. This book argues that Engel's article succeeds so brilliantly because it integrates a wide variety of issues, such as cultural transformation, attitudes about law, dispute processing, legal consciousness, rights mobilization, inclusion and exclusion, and inequality. Contributors to this volume explore the influence of Engel's important work, engaging with the possibilities in its challenging hypotheses and provocative omissions related to the legal system and legal process, class conflict and difference, and law in other cultures.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Mary Nell Trautner is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Arizona. She is currently working on a National Science Foundation-funded study of how families cope and make decisions about their child's birth injuries. Her research appears in Gender and Society, American Sociological Review, Law and Policy, and other outlets.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1316638480
• ISBN 13: 9781316638484
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 316
• Éditeur: Trautner Mary Nell