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Charisma and everyday ethics: Fred Rogers and the power of example
In: Sociologia e politiche sociali, Heft 2, S. 91-104
ISSN: 1972-5116
Cape Fear and the Verdict: Law, Morality and Violence
In: Humanity & society, Band 34, Heft 2, S. 169-188
ISSN: 2372-9708
As a staple feature of popular culture, films shape our everyday understandings and expectations of relationships among law and violence. This paper compares two films, Cape Fear (1992) and The Verdict (1982). The analysis focuses on moral, jurisprudential and social meanings through which narratives provide validity and legitimacy for consenting to law and limiting violence. These films provide sharply different narratives of the capacity of law to control, direct, and limit violence. At one extreme, Cape Fear shows the total absence of legal validity, a descent to anomie and the eruption of violence. At the other end of the continuum, The Verdict demonstrates how, despite their imperfections, legal institutions provide a setting for realizing shared morality, establishing solidarity and truth, and exposing and limiting violence. By analyzing these films, we can more fully realize that our expectations of law to limit violence cannot be isolated from broader issues of solidarity, morality and social relations.
Property, Law and Violence: A Thematic Analysis of House of Sand and Fog
In: Humanity & society, Band 30, Heft 4, S. 378-391
ISSN: 2372-9708
Talcott Parsons: The Social Relations of Individualism and Economy
In: Sociological focus: quarterly journal of the North Central Sociological Association, Band 38, Heft 1, S. 65-82
ISSN: 2162-1128
Sudden Solidarity and the Rush to Normalization: Toward an Alternative Approach
In: Sociological focus: quarterly journal of the North Central Sociological Association, Band 35, Heft 1, S. 73-79
ISSN: 2162-1128
Law, bureaucracy, and justice
In: Qualitative sociology, Band 8, Heft 2, S. 159-164
ISSN: 1573-7837
Book reviews
In: Contemporary Crises, Band 1, Heft 1, S. 121-124
ISSN: 1573-0751
Reforming labor law in the Czech republic: International sources of change
In: Studies in law, politics, and society, Band 45, S. 255-280
In the aftermath of the Communist Era, Czechs and Slovaks sought to enter the European Union (EU) in order to participate in Western European markets and polities. To gain entry, they had to reform their labor laws based on EU protocols. This study analyzes changes in labor law in the Czech Republic by focusing on differences between statutes and regulations in the Communist and Post-Communist Eras. The study is framed by international approaches to law that locate sources of legal change in international organizations and protocols. In reforming Czech labor law, EU labor law standards were established through internal political processes that were themselves shaped by EU requirements rooted in pluralism and the rule of law. [Copyright 2008 Elsevier Ltd.]
Laid-off workers, the Chrysler Loan Guarantee and corporatist legitimacy: A thematic analysis
In: Contemporary Crises, Band 9, Heft 3, S. 229-254
ISSN: 1573-0751
Laid-off Workers, the Chrysler Loan Guarantee, and Corporatist Legitimacy: A Thematic Analysis
In: Contemporary crises: crime, law, social policy, Band 9, Heft 3, S. 229
ISSN: 0378-1100
Laid-Off Workers, the Chrysler Loan Guarantee and Corporatist Legitimacy: A Thematic Analysis
In: Contemporary crises: crime, law, social policy, Band 9, Heft 3, S. 229-254
ISSN: 0378-1100
Laid-off workers, the Chrysler loan guarantee and corporatist legitimacy: a thematic analysis
In: Contemporary crises: crime, law, social policy, Band 9, S. 229-254
ISSN: 0378-1100
Multinational capital, labor and the state
In: Contemporary Crises, Band 4, Heft 3, S. 309-321
ISSN: 1573-0751