Law and Community in Three American Towns

Name: Law and Community in Three American Towns
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ISBN: 9780801481697

ISBN-10: 0801481694

ISBN-13: 9780801481697

Edition: 1994

Authors: Carol J. Greenhouse, Barbara Yngvesson, David M. Engel

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Many commentators on the contemporary United States believe that current rates of litigation are a sign of decay in the nation's social fabric. Law and Community in Three American Towns explores how ordinary people in three towns-located in New England, the Midwest, and the South-view the law, courts, litigants, and social order.Carol J. Greenhouse, Barbara Yngvesson, and David M. Engel analyze attitudes toward law and law users as a way of commentating on major American myths and ongoing changes in American society. They show that residents of "Riverside," "Sander County," and "Hopewell" interpret litigation as a sign of social decline, but they also value law as a symbol of their local…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 6/3/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English

Anthony Dunne is Professor and Head of the Design Interactions Programme at the Royal College of Art. He is the author of Hertzian Tales: Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience, and Critical Design (MIT Press).



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Ethnographic Issues



Ethnographic Studies



The Oven Bird's Song: Insiders, Outsiders, and Personal Injuries in an American Community



Making Law at the Doorway: The Clerk, the Court, and the Construction of Community in a New England Town



Courting Difference: Issues of Interpretation and Comparison in the Study of Legal Ideologies



Law, Values, and the Discourse of Community



Avoidance and Involvement



Connection and Separation



History and Place


Conclusion: The Paradox of Community


Notes


References


Index