Influences of Social Organization on Dispute Processing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4084226 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William L F Felstiner (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 63-94 |
| Publication date | 1974-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Law & Society Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-9216 • E-ISSN: 1540-5893 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3053022 |
| OpenAlex | W2318030187 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 99 |
| References cited | 47 |
Man is an ingenious social animal. Institutionalized responses to interpersonal conflict, for instance, stretch from song duels and witchcraft to moots and mediation to self-conscious therapy and hierarchical, professionalized courts. The dispute processing practices prevailing in any particular society are a product of its values, its psychological imperatives, its history and its economic, political and social organization. It is unlikely that any general theory encompassing all of these factors will be developed until there have been many piecemeal attempts to understand something of the influence of each
Business · Criminology · Political science · Sociology · Social and Intergroup Psychology
Media Ombudsmen
Beyond informal justice
What is a “case”?
Growing Awareness to Reduce Labor Abuse
Evolution and dueling dispute processing
Legal Mobilization and Legal Penetration
Democracy, Courts and the Information Order
Citizen Discontent with Legal Procedures
Anthropology, Dispute Processes and Law
Old roads and new directions
The dynamic and iterative pre‐dispute phase
Law and Community in Japan
Equality Bodies
Conflict Resolution in Organizations
Growing Up in Law and Society
The Dispute Tree and the Legal Forest
Pathways to preferences for collaborative conflict resolution
Bringing Sociology of Law Back into Pierre Bourdieu's Sociology
Popular Justice and the Ideology of Social Transformation
Lessons From East Germany
Injustice Frames, Legality, and the Everyday Construction of Sexual Harassment
The Paradox of Complaining
Resolving Problems among Neighbors in Post‐Soviet Russia
The multiple faces of conflict in organizations
Medical malpractice, social structure, and social control
Everyday forms of employee resistance
The management of managers
Women in Canadian Civil Courts
Everyday Disputes and Mediation in the United States
Resolving disputes in mediated “gig” work
Going it alone
Social Capital and Dispute Resolution in Informal Areas of Cairo and Istanbul
Problem- und Konfliktlösung in wirtschaftlichen Transaktionen
Justice
Situated Activities in a Dog Park
Toward an Understanding of Legal Culture
Political and Psychological Correlates of Conflict Management
Thinking Disputes
Afterword
The "New Formalism" in Disputing and Dispute Processing
A State Court's Clientele
Inventing Law in Local Settings
Pour une sociologie des pratiques de defense
Institutionalizing Mediation
Dispute Processing by the Philippine Agrarian Court
The Small Claims Court
Alternatives in Dispute Processing
Two Approaches to Contemporary Dispute Behavior and Consumer Problems
The Aftermath of Injury
Complaint as a Problem-Solving Mechanism
Thinking About Courts
Who Sues Their Doctors? How Patients Handle Medical Grievances
Case Processing
Institutionalizing Neighborhood Courts
The Oven Bird's Song
In the Eye of the Beholder
Universals in Judging Wrongdoing
Private Use of a Public Forum
Culprits, Culpability, and Crime
When the State Tries to See Like a Family
Justice in many Rooms
Labor Relations Litigation
Mediation in Small Claims Court
Going to Court
Consumer Response to Unsatisfactory Purchases
Managing Ideologies
Conclusion
The Routinization of Debt Collection
Lawyers and Consumer Protection Laws
To Confront or Not to Confront
Avoidance as Dispute Processing
Why the "Haves" Come Out Ahead
Conflict and Conflict Resolution in China
Democracy and Compromise in Militarized Interstate Conflicts, 1816-1992
Courts and Community Relevance of a Social-Control Dichotomy
Social control, structure and practice
The Politics of Participation and Nonparticipation in Dispute Processes
The Coming Redefinitions of Crime
Responding to Roommate Troubles
Pourquoi c'est toujours les mêmes qui s'en sortent bien
Belittling grievances
Citizen awakening? Exploring legal consciousness in a context of mass political mobilization
Pursuing Rights and Getting Justice on China's Ethnic Frontier, 1949-1966
Legal Mobilization in Schools
The Rewards of Allah
Strategies of offence choice
Hegemony, Contestation, and Empowerment
Exclusionary Practices and the Delegitimization of Client Voice
Courts and Conflict Resolution
Why Don't They Complain? The Social Determinants of Chinese Migrant Workers' Grievance Behaviors
Sings of quality
Stratification and dispute handling in two highland Chiapas communities
The Customs of Conflict Management among Corporate Executives
Population Density, Land Tenure, and Law in the New Guinea Highlands
Reconsidering retaliation
Fiction and Reality
The Influence of Conflict Context Characteristics on Conflict Regulation Preferences of Immigrants
Law in Preindustrial Societies
Organizational Conflict Management as Disputing Process The Problem of Social Escalation
Anthropology of law
The Family
Ideas and Procedures in African Customary Law
Caste and Kinship in Central India
Family and Social Network (International Behavioural and Social Sciences, Classics from the Tavistock Press)
Reinventing anthropology.
Law in Culture and Society
Family and Kinship in East London
Justice And Judgment Among The Tiv
Mao and Mediation
A Korean Village
The Extended Kinship System
Changing Residence in the City
The American Family
The Courts, the Public and the Law Explosion
Law and Social Change in Zinacantan
Toward the Creation of a Complementary, Decentralized System of Criminal Justice
Toward a General Theory of Action
Anthropological Notes on Disputes and Law in India 1
When Americans Complain
Readings in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Cleavage and internal conflict
Legal levels and multiplicity of legal systems in human societies
Competition and dissensus
The Displacement of Traditional Law in Modern India
The Jeito
Geographic Mobility and Extended Family Cohesion
Urban Structure and Social Participation
Dispute Settlement in Chinese-American Communities
A Comparative Theory of Dispute Institutions in Society
Why the "Haves" Come Out Ahead
Law and Social Change
The Foundations of Social Anthropology
Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society
Selected Studies in Marriage and the Family
The Judicial Process Among the Barotse of Northern Rhodesia
Politics, Procedures, and Norms in Changing Chagga Law
Interpersonal Relations in Peasant Society
The Isolated Nuclear Family
Anthropology of Law
General and Theoretical
The Anthropological Study of Law1
Oaths, Autonomic Ordeals, and Power1
Chinese Mediation on the Eve of Modernization
Poro Values and Courtroom Procedures in a Kpelle Chiefdom
Legal Evolution
Urban Neighborhoods and Informal Social Relations
| Unique citing works | 99 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,9 |
| Citation span | 1974 - 2026 (53) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 98 |