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Patricia Ewick

Other affiliations: DePaul University
Bio: Patricia Ewick is an academic researcher from Clark University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Economic Justice & Philosophy of law. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 26 publications receiving 2591 citations. Previous affiliations of Patricia Ewick include DePaul University.

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TL;DR: The authors explored the different ways people view the law and identified three common narratives: one is based on the idea of the law as magisterial and remote; another views the Law as a game with rules that can be manipulated to one's advantage; and a third narrative describes the Law is an arbitrary power to be actively resisted.
Abstract: This study explores the different ways people view the law. It identifies three common narratives: one is based on the idea of the law as magisterial and remote; another views the law as a game with rules that can be manipulated to one's advantage; and a third narrative describes the law as an arbitrary power to be actively resisted. Drawing on more than 400 extensive case studies, the text presents individual experiences interwoven with an analysis that charts a coherent theory of legality. It depicts the institution as it is lived: strange and familiar, imperfect and ordinary, and at the centre of daily life.

1,401 citations

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TL;DR: Les AA. as mentioned in this paper argue that narration is un acte social, un discours social qui depend pour sa production comme pour sa reception de normes, i.e., le place, le moment, le maniere, et la maniere par laquelle il doit etre formule.
Abstract: Les AA. s'efforcent d'elaborer une sociologie de la narration. La narration est un acte social, un discours social qui depend pour sa production comme pour sa reception de normes qui definissent le lieu, le moment et la maniere par laquelle il doit etre formule. Elle est donc un discours situationnel qui depend du contexte et de l'organisation de son elaboration en ce qui concerne son effet politique. Les AA. s'attachent plus particulierement a l'etude des variables qui conditionnent soit un discours qui reproduit les relations de pouvoir soit un discours subversif

739 citations

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TL;DR: Using stories of citizens' resistance to legalized authority, the act of storytelling extends temporally and socially what might otherwise be an individual, discrete, and ephemeral transaction.
Abstract: Using stories of citizens’ resistance to legalized authority, the authors propose that the act of storytelling extends temporally and socially what might otherwise be an individual, discrete, and ephemeral transaction. Adopting a concept of power as a contingent outcome in a social transaction, they emphasize that not only dominant, institutionalized power but also resistance to institutionalized authority draws from a common pool of sociocultural resources, including symbolic, linguistic, organizational, and material phenomena. Although such acts of resistance may not cumulate to produce institutional change, they may nonetheless have consequences beyond the specific social transaction: the authors propose that a chief means for extending the social consequences of resistance is to transform an act of resistance into a story about resistance. Based upon an appreciation of the structural conditions of power and authority, stories of resistance can become instructions about both the sources and the limitat...

412 citations

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TL;DR: The authors examine les differentes perceptions that les citoyens americains ont of ce dualisme du systeme juridique, a travers la categorie utilisee par Galanter, a savoir celle de nantis, and quelles en sont les consequences ideologiques.
Abstract: En 1974, Marc Galanter a mis en evidence une serie de contradictions internes au systeme juridique americain permettant a celui-ci de se reclamer de l'universalisme et de l'autorite publique tout en favorisant d'un autre cote le particularisme, le pouvoir prive et l'inegalite. En particulier, il a mis en relief le rapport existant entre un statut socio-economique eleve et la capacite a mobiliser frequemment l'action juridique (repeat players). Cet article examine les differentes perceptions que les citoyens americains ont de ce dualisme du systeme juridique, a travers la categorie utilisee par Galanter, a savoir celle de nantis, et quelles en sont les consequences ideologiques

47 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the science question in global feminism is addressed and a discussion of science in the women's movement is presented, including two views why "physics is a bad model for physics" and why women's movements benefit science.
Abstract: Introduction - after the science question in feminism. Part 1 Science: feminism confronts the sciences how the women's movement benefits science - two views why \"physics\" is a bad model for physics. Part 2 Epistemology: what is feminist epistemology \"strong objectivity\" and socially situated knowledge feminist epistemology in and after the enlightenment. Part 3 \"Others\": \"...and race?\" - the science question in global feminism common histories, common destinies - science in the first and third worlds \"real science\" thinking from the perspective of lesbian lives reinventing ourselves as other Conclusion - what is a feminist science.

2,259 citations

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TL;DR: The field of collective action has been studied extensively in the last few decades as discussed by the authors, with a focus on the construction of collective actions and the process of collective identity, as well as their meaning and meaning.
Abstract: Introduction Part I. Theory of Collective Action: 1. The construction of collective action 2. Conflict and change 3. Action and meaning 4. The process of collective identity Part II. Contemporary Collective Action: 5. conflicts of culture 6. Invention of the present 7. The time of difference 8. Roots for today and for tomorrow 9. A search for ethics 10. Information, power, domination Part III. The Field of Collective Action: 11. A society without a centre 12. The political system 13. The state and the distribution of social resources 14. Modernization, crisis, and conflict: the case of Italy Part IV. Acting Collectively: 15. Mobilization and political participation 16. The organization of movements 17. Leadership in social movements 18. Collective action and discourse 19. Forms of action 20. Research on collective action.

1,731 citations

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Peggy Levitt1
TL;DR: This article specifies how the ideas, behaviors, identities, and social capital that flow from receiving- to sending- country communities are remolded in receiving countries, the mechanisms by which they are sent back to sending communities, and the role they play in transforming sending-country social and political life.
Abstract: Many studies highlight the macro-level dissemination of global culture and institutions. This article focuses on social remittances--a local-level migration-driven form of cultural diffusion. Social remittances are the ideas behaviors identities and social capital that flow from receiving- to sending-country communities. The role that these resources play in promoting immigrant entrepreneurship community and family formation and political integration is widely acknowledged. This article specifies how these same ideas and practices are remolded in receiving countries the mechanisms by which they are sent back to sending communities and the role they play in transforming sending-country social and political life. The data concern migrants from the Dominican Republic to the Boston area of the United States. (EXCERPT)

1,300 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, Murray Edelman argues against the conventional interpretation of politics, one that takes for granted that we live in a world of facts and that people react rationally to the facts they know, and explores the ways in which the conspicuous aspects of the political scene are interpretations that systematically buttress established inequalities and interpretations already dominant political ideologies.
Abstract: Thanks to the ready availability of political news today, informed citizens can protect and promote their own interests and the public interest more effectively. Or can they? Murray Edelman argues against this conventional interpretation of politics, one that takes for granted that we live in a world of facts and that people react rationally to the facts they know. In doing so, he explores in detail the ways in which the conspicuous aspects of the political scene are interpretations that systematically buttress established inequalities and interpretations already dominant political ideologies.

1,225 citations