Part one of term 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 the law, courts, litigants, and community. ...

Part two of term paper
... our society. In the 1970s, Sander County was undergoing great social and economic changes. Agriculture, a central part of life for most residents, became more mechanized and a few large manufacturing plants opened, bringing in “quite a number of a certain element” Sander County had “never had before” (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 li ...