WDW101Y1 Lecture : WDW215 Lecture #5.docx
17 Nov 2013
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Looking for how law in the books differ from law in action. Direct interpersonal violence was okay, a way to organize a dispute. Shaming as a form of reintegration into society, supernatural cures. Lump it : relationship between the two disputants continues when one person of the relationship does not want to pursue it because it will not help them (second dimension of power) Legal mobilization in the context of dispute resolution. Need to initial a legal action, to assert your right to not be discriminated, depends on people bringing the dispute: how and why people bring disputes is important (common law) Affects the development of the common law. The body of law is shaped by the cases people bring, social change. Idea of law as culture: serves as a discourse, legal mobilization: groups can the particular law can help us understand the social world. Assumption that people go right to courts.
