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OverviewA 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mary Nell TrautnerPublisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.550kg ISBN: 9781107188402ISBN 10: 1107188407 Pages: 314 Publication Date: 11 January 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsPart I. Introduction and Contextualization: 1. Revisiting the oven bird's song Mary Nell Trautner; 2. The oven bird's song: insiders, outsiders, and personal injuries in an American community David M. Engel; 3. Emulating Sherlock Holmes: the dog that didn't bark, the victim who didn't sue, and other contradictions of the 'hyper-litigious' society Barbara Yngvesson; 4. Karl's law school, or the oven bird in Buffalo Alfred S. Konefsky; Part II. The Oven Bird's Insights into the Legal System and Legal Process: 5. Challenging legal consciousness: practice, institutions, and varieties of resistance Anna-Maria Marshall; 6. Client selection: how lawyers reflect and influence community values Lynn Mather; 7. Do jurors hear the oven bird's song? Valerie P. Hans; 8. Having a right but using it too: 'The Oven Bird's Song' about contracts Stewart Macaulay; Part III. Insiders, Outsiders, Class Conflict, and Difference: 9. Indigenous litigiousness: the oven bird's song and the miner's canary Eve Darian-Smith; 10. Listening for the songs of others: insiders, outsiders, and the legal marginalization of the working underclass in America Michael McCann; 11. Racing the oven bird: criminalization, rightlessness, and the politics of immigration Jamie Longazel; 12. Irresponsible matter: sublunar dreams of injury and identity Anne Bloom; 13. Student perceptions of (their) place in relationship to 'The Oven Bird's Song' Renee Ann Cramer; Part IV. Conflict and Law in Other Cultures: 14. The songs of other birds Anya Bernstein; 15. Imagined community and litigation behavior: the meaning of automobile compensation lawsuits in Japan Yoshitaka Wada; 16. Can 'The Oven Bird' migrate north of the border? Annie Bunting; Part V. Afterward: 17. Looking backward, looking forward: past and future lives of 'The Oven Bird's Song' David M. Engel.ReviewsAuthor InformationMary 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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