SOSC 3375 Study Guide - Final Guide: Family And Medical Leave Act Of 1993, Law & Society Review, Kashechewan First Nation

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 3375
• Professor: David Szablowski

Document Summary

Legal mobilization: process by which individuals make claims about their legal rights and pursue legal avenues to defend or develop those rights. Legal liberalism: state exercises control over individuals through law. Rules are enforced equally for all citizens and in a fashion that achieves the purposes consciously designed. Courts have the responsibility of defining the effect of legal rules and have the final say in defining the social meaning of laws. Courts are the central institutions of the legal order. Albinston reading: bargaining in the shadow of social institutions: competing. Discourses and social change in workplace mobilization of civil rights law & society. Albinston"s study examines how legal norms and other institutionalized systems of meaning influence the process of mobilizing the family medical leave act (fmla) rights in the workplace. The fmla provides a fertile location to study how law and other social institutions interact because these rights challenge deeply held beliefs about what working/being a good worker means.