The Paradox Of Community

Part I of Essay
“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, I ....

Part II of Essay
.... 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.” Litigation is portrayed as weakening the collective values personified in the law as a means of turning the law against the community to make an “easy buck” (144). ....