Courting Difference
Issues of Interpretation and Comparison in The Study of Legal Ideologies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4084397 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carol J Greenhouse (0009-0008-9447-9513, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 687-707 |
| Publication date | 1988-01-01 |
| 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 | 10.2307/3053706 |
| OpenAlex | W2315629336 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 17 |
This article explores the connections between the interpretive and comparative dimensions of ideology by analyzing ethnographic data from an American town. The town is undergoing a rapid process of urbanization, and townspeople are absorbed in the analysis of the changes around them and their town's prospects as a community. The article compares interview data and courtroom observations in which local understandings are shown to be constituted in pervasive cultural distinctions: past and future, insiders and outsiders, harmony and conflict, gender, and various forms of family life shape local views of change and conflict. The conclusion relates an analysis of the symbolic terms in which these distinctions are expressed to general issues of the nature of ideologies and their truth claims
Epistemology · Ideology · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Philosophy
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The Songs of Other Birds
Nested comparisons
Legal Consciousness Reconsidered
The construction of workers’ rights consciousness through legal intermediations
A Community Divided
Hidden in Plain View
Performing Impartiality
Legal Consciousness and Cultural Intimacy in Turkey’s Intellectual Property Reform
The Denigration of Rights and the Persistence of Rights Talk
Shifting frames and rhetorics
A ‘Bedford Falls’ kind of place
Law and Inequality
Legal Discourse and Political Intolerance
Violence and Local State Formation
Practising on the Moon
History, Power, Ideology, and Culture
Blue Jeans, Rape, and the "De-Constitutive" Power of Law
Legal Autonomy as Political Engagement
Legal Consciousness of the Leftover Woman
Life unsettled
Sings of quality
Praying for Justice
The Return of grand theory in the human sciences
The Interpretation of Cultures
Praying for Justice
Knowledge & politics
Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Law in Modern Society
Critical Traditions in Law and Society Research
The Oven Bird's Song
The Ideology of Law
Continuity and Change in Patterns of Case Handling
Everyday understandings of the law in working-class America
American Kinship
Looking at Culture, Looking for Rules
Anthropology at Home
The Machiavellian Moment
| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,59 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 2025 (37) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |