{"product_id":"law-and-community-in-three-carol-j-greenhouse-9780801481697","title":"Law and Community in Three American Towns","description":"\u003cp\u003eMany commentators on the contemporary United States believe that current rates of litigation are a sign of decay in the nation's social fabric. \u003ci\u003eLaw and Community in Three American Towns \u003c\/i\u003eexplores how ordinary people in three towns--located in New England, the Midwest, and the South--view the law, courts, litigants, and social order.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarol J. Greenhouse, Barbara Yngvesson, and David M. Engel analyze attitudes toward law and law users as a way of commentating on major American myths and ongoing changes in American society. They show that residents of \"Riverside,\" \"Sander County,\" and \"Hopewell\" interpret litigation as a sign of social decline, but they also value law as a symbol of their local way of life. The book focuses on this ambivalence and relates it to the deeply-felt tensions express between \"community\" and \"rights\" as rival bases of society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe authors, two anthropologists and a lawyer, each with an understanding of a particular region, were surprised to discover that such different locales produced parallel findings. They undertook a comparative project to find out why ambivalence toward the law and law use should be such a common refrain. The answer, they believe, turns out to be less a matter of local traditions than of the ways that people perceive the patterns of their lives as being vulnerable to external forces of change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carol J. Greenhouse, Barbara Yngvesson, David M. Engel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801481694\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801481697\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/03\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d","brand":"Carol J. Greenhouse","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44059733852415,"sku":"9780801481697","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ec2a8f88-5670-434c-88d7-09586d6cc324.jpg?v=1685060010","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/law-and-community-in-three-carol-j-greenhouse-9780801481697","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}