The Every Day Work of Studying the Law in Everyday Life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12794971 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan S Silbey (0000-0003-2500-3497, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-18 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Law and Social Science (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1550-3585 • E-ISSN: 1550-3631 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-110316-113326 |
| OpenAlex | W2951359472 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 31 |
Susan Silbey began her academic training in political science and in the course of her studies became a sociologist of law, the last two decades as a member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's anthropology department and management school. The disciplinary transformations ground, in part, her attention to the ways in which the everyday life of scholarship has led her to study the everyday life of the law. In this article, she describes her scholarly life through seven chapters of relatively distinct challenges and themes. Across the arc of her life, she identifies the recurrent influence of both serendipity and theoretical inference acting within the immediate constraints of family and personal capacity. Reading across descriptions of her work on regulatory enforcement, dispute negotiation and mediation, and popular legal culture and consciousness, she points to the necessity of reconciling on-the-ground vicissitudes of doing legal work with the theories and narratives social scientists construct to make sense of institutions and history. She muses on theoretical attempts to align the particular and the general, the micro and macro forces working in legal cultures, and concludes by celebrating the ubiquity of social ordering whose own momentum both seduces and frustrates social scientists
Construct (python library · Discipline · Epistemology · Everyday life · Mediation · Narrative · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Serendipity · Social science · Sociology · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Legal Education and Practice Innovations
Patricia Ewick und Susan Silbey
Soziologische Theorien des Rechts
Rank Has Its Privileges
The Global Challenge of Mass Migration and Asylum
Legal Consciousness and Cultural Intimacy in Turkey’s Intellectual Property Reform
Change Is in the Air
The Paradox of Justice
A duty to protect? Legal consciousness among military officers in armed conflict
How parole boards judge remorse
The functions of the police in modern society
Enforcing Regulation
The Common Place of Law
How Professors Think
In a Different Voice
Two Models of the Criminal Process
What is a Social Fact
The Limits of the Criminal Sanction
Accounting for Taste
Room for Manoeuver
Critical Empiricism” in American Legal Studies
Symbolic Power without Symbolic Violence? Critical Comments on Legal Consciousness Studies in USA
Legal Consciousness Studies as a Laboratory of a Renewed System of Knowledge About Law. Presentation of the Special Report
Women in American science
Civil Litigation Research Project
Law and the Behavioral Sciences
The Pull of the Policy Audience
The Availability of Law
Science on Stage
The Police on Skid-Row
Competing Institutions
Critical Traditions in Law and Society Research
Un jeu d'enfant
After Legal Consciousness
Case Processing
Epistemic Cultures
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |