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

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