Law and Society
Jurisprudence and Subculture in
Conflict and Accommodation


Contents
Publisher’s Preface

vi
SECTION I: INTRODUCTION
JURISPRUDENCE AND JURIDICAL CULTURES

Toward a Renewed Sociological Jurisprudence: From
Roscoe Pound to Herbert Blumer and Beyond

1
Legitimacy and Consensus in Lipset’s America: From
Washington to Watergate

32
Equality Under the Law

56
Law and Sociology

58
Civilization: Contents, Discontents, Malcontents

67
SECTION II: A SUBCULTURE BUILT ON
CONFLICT RESOLUTION: CHINATOWN

Chinese and Japanese Communities

79
Institutions for Judicial Settlement: Clans, “Territorial” or
Dialect Associations (Landsmannschaften), and Secret Societies

94
Mediation, Conciliation and Conflict Resolution: Power
in Chinatown

140
Mediation, Conciliation and Conflict Resolution: Conflict
in Chinatown

178
Conclusion: Conflict, Group Cohesion, and Community Power

197
References and Permission

201

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