Law and Society
Jurisprudence and Subculture in Conflict and Accomodation
Stanford M. Lyman

Gordian Knot Books
distributed by UPNE



Contents

• Preface
• SECTION I: INTRODUCTION: JURISPRUDENCE AND JURIDICAL CULTURES
• Toward a Renewed Sociological Jurisprudence: From Roscoe Pound to Herbert Blumer and Beyond
• Legitimacy and Consensus in Lipset’s America: From Washington to Watergate
• Equality Under the Law
• Law and Sociology
• Civilization: Contents, Discontents, Malcontents
• SECTION II: A SUBCULTURE BUILT ON CONFLICT RESOLUTION: CHINATOWN
• Chinese and Japanese Communities
• Institutions for Judicial Settlement: Clans, “Territorial” or Dialect Associations (Landsmannschaften), and Secret Societies
• Mediation, Conciliation and Conflict Resolution: Power in Chinatown
• Mediation, Conciliation and Conflict Resolution: Conflict in Chinatown
• Conclusion: Conflict, Group Cohesion, and Community Power
• References and Permissions




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