Sociology
Law and Everyday Life
Document Type
Book Chapter
Abstract
Historically, law and everyday life have been defined in opposition to one another. Over the past century, the boundary separating law from everyday life has become blurred. Increasingly, socio-legal scholars understand law and everyday life to be mutually constituted in a dynamic and emergent process wherein law is produced and applied in the everyday domain of social action. At the same time, the practices, relationships, and meanings that make up the everyday are themselves, in part, constructed by law or legality.
Publication Title
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition
Publication Date
3-26-2015
First Page
468
Last Page
473
ISBN
9780080970875
DOI
10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.86050-X
Keywords
disputing, globalization, hegemony, ideology, law and social change, legal consciousness, legal culture, legal formalism, legal mobilization, legal realism, resistance
Repository Citation
Ewick, Patricia, "Law and Everyday Life" (2015). Sociology. 43.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_sociology/43