The Paradox Of Community
Beginning of paper
“One can see that insiders are caught in : The
same cultural vocabulary that undermines community is simultaneously that
community's idiom of self-affirmation” (Greenhouse, et al. 175). In Law and
Community, David M. Engel explores how ordinary people in a small, rural,
Illinois town perceive ....
Middle of paper
.... (29). Long-
time residents, worried about change, express what they believe to be “the new
role of laws and the courts in the local and national society“ (1).
Though personal injury litigation rates are lower in Sander County than
other major types of litigation, a norm of aversion towards this legal discourse
is evident throughout the majority of the community. Those who enforce personal
injury claims are viewed by fellow residents as greedy, selfish, and “quick to
sue.” Litiga ....
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Page count: 7 (approximately 250 words per page)
