Social Identity and the Law

Social Identity and the Law
Author: Barbara L. Graham
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2018-10-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351067095

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Social Identity and the Law: Race, Sexuality and Intersectionality is an important resource for inquiry into the relationship between law and social identity in the contexts of race, sexuality and intersectionality in the United States. The book provides a systematic legal treatment of selected historical and contemporary civil rights and social justice issues in areas affecting African Americans, Latinos/as, Asian Americans and LGBTQ persons from a law and politics perspective. It covers topics such as the legal and social construction of social identity, slavery and the rise of Jim Crow, discrimination based on national origin and citizenship, educational equity, voting rights, workplace discrimination, discrimination in private and public spaces, regulation of intimate relationships, marriage and reproductive justice, and criminal justice. Lecturers will benefit from: Fifty-seven excerpted cases accompanied with engaging questions presented at the beginning of each case to stimulate class discussion. An eResource including 129 supplemental case excerpts and case briefs for all excerpted cases appearing in the book. Suggested reading lists at the end of each chapter recommending key articles and books to help students survey the academic literature on the topics. With a logical chapter structure and accessible writing style, this textbook is an essential companion for use on undergraduate courses on American constitutional law, civil liberties and civil rights, social justice, and race and law.

Social Identity and Conflict

Social Identity and Conflict
Author: K. Korostelina
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2007-07-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0230605672

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Looking at a variety of countries, this book explores the influence of cultural dimensions on the interrelations between personal and social identity, and the impact of identity salience on attitudes, stereotypes, and the structures of consciousness.

Identity Theory

Identity Theory
Author: Peter J. Burke
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2022-11-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0197617212

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The concept of identity has become widespread within the social and behavioral sciences, cutting across disciplines from psychiatry and psychology to political science and sociology. Introduced more than fifty years ago, identity theory is a social psychological theory that attempts to understand person's identities, their sources in interaction and society, their processes of operation, and their consequences for interaction and society from a sociological perspective. In this fully updated second edition of Identity Theory, Peter J. Burke and Jan E. Stets expand and refine their discussion of identity theory. Each chapter has been significantly revised and chapters have been added to address new theoretical developments and empirical research in the field. They cover identity characteristics, the processes and outcomes of identity verification, and the operation of identities to detail in particular the role of emotional, behavioral, and cognitive processes. In addition, Burke and Stets explore the multiple identities individuals hold from their multiple positions in society and organizations as well as the multiple identities activated by many people interacting in groups and organizations. Written in an accessible style, this revised edition of Identity Theory continues to make the full range of this powerful theory understandable to readers at all levels.

Human Rights Law and Personal Identity

Human Rights Law and Personal Identity
Author: Jill Marshall
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2014-06-20
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1134443331

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This book explores the role human rights law plays in the formation, and protection, of our personal identities. Drawing from a range of disciplines, Jill Marshall examines how human rights law includes and excludes specific types of identity, which feed into moral norms of human freedom and human dignity and their translation into legal rights. The book takes on a three part structure. Part I traces the definition of identity, and follows the evolution of, and protects, a right to personal identity and personality within human rights law. It specifically examines the development of a right to personal identity as property, the inter-subjective nature of identity, and the intercession of power and inequality. Part II evaluates past and contemporary attempts to describe the core of personal identity, including theories concerning the soul, the rational mind, and the growing influence of neuroscience and genetics in explaining what it means to be human. It also explores the inter-relation and conflict between universal principles and culturally specific rights. Part III focuses on issues and case law that can be interpreted as allowing self-determination. Marshall argues that while in an age of individual identity, people are increasingly obliged to live in conformed ways, pushing out identities that do not fit with what is acceptable. Drawing on feminist theory, the book concludes by arguing how human rights law would be better interpreted as a force to enable respect for human dignity and freedom, interpreted as empowerment and self-determination whilst acknowledging our inter-subjective identities. In drawing on socio-legal, philosophical, biological and feminist outlooks, this book is truly interdisciplinary, and will be of great interest and use to scholars and students of human rights law, legal and social theory, gender and cultural studies.

Law, Cognition, and Identity

Law, Cognition, and Identity
Author: Eric J. Mitnick
Publisher:
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2009
Genre:
ISBN:

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This article argues for a turn toward social and cognitive psychology in one prominent area of sociolegal studies. Over roughly the past two decades, sociolegal scholars have become increasingly interested in the intersection between law and social identity. In a number of different contexts (disability, indigenous cultural groups, colonialism, race, gender, citizenship, and many others), law has been described as constitutive of social life, culture, and identity. Yet there remains within sociolegal scholarship only the most limited sense of how, why, and to what extent legal institutions constitute social and cultural identity.This gulf in the literature is primarily the result of disciplinary boundaries: Where the influence of law on social identity has been almost exclusively the province of sociolegal studies, the social cognitive mechanisms that give rise to social identity have been studied most extensively within the fields of cultural sociology and social and cognitive psychology. A turn toward these areas of research reveals that law and legal institutions are capable of constituting aspects of human social identity when the investitive criteria that serve as the bases for legal categorization reflect socially salient characteristics.This article further explores the sources of social salience, contending that legal investitive criteria become socially salient in virtue of physical differences, power relations, cultural differences, and deep history. Finally, law's role as an agent of socialization is placed in context, locating law within an array of socially constitutive institutions, including educational institutions, the media, and the family.

Integrating Spaces

Integrating Spaces
Author: Kali N. Murray
Publisher: Aspen Publishing
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2023-09-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1543831079

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Integrating Spaces: Property Law and Social Identity, Second Edition, provides a dynamic social, historical, and doctrinal context for understanding property law. With historical perspective and doctrinal analysis, it maps the directions in which property law has turned in response to issues of race and ethnicity, and demonstrates how racial and ethnic categories continue to affect contemporary property law. New to the 2nd Edition: New frames to understand the relationship of property law and social identity: social identity, dispossession, disruption and reordering, place, space and social identity, and repair. A wider range of social identities, including race, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, and citizenship status. New material to the Black Lives Moment including material on debates over memorials, reparations, and transportation. New material on the Asian-American experience related to property law including the migration of Asian-Americans, the barriers to property ownership for Asian-Americans, and citizenship status for Asian-Americans. Expanded discussion of Native American and tribal identity, including a consideration of the status of Native Hawaiians, and the status of Black members of tribal entities. Comparative and international law materials in property law including Haiti, South Africa, the European Union, and Australia. Different approaches to social identities, including critical race theory, progressive property theory, and social and political history. New material on neighborhood, space and place, including material related to highway expansion and blight. Benefits for instructors and students: A rich selection of cases that explore the relationship between citizenship, social identity, status, and property interest, including Dred Scott v. Sandford, United States v. Singh, and Oyama v. California. A critical look at how the law of dispossession was shaped by contact and conquest of Native Americans and enslavement of Black people, and the efficacy and fairness of traditional property concepts as applied to minority or cultural requirements: An exploration of how reorganization of property systems facilitates both social disruption and reordering, including The Haitian Constitution of 1801 and Moore v. Cleveland A consideration of how property law can be used to rectify or repair currently existing inequality, including removal of statutes, land partition, and recent responses to Black Lives Matter Insightful analysis of federal civil rights statutes and their implications for environmental justice, housing, and civil rights law through the “space” of neighborhood. Statutory interpretation, provocative scholarship, and discussion questions that fuel legal inquiry and promote class discussion.

The Legal Construction of Identity

The Legal Construction of Identity
Author: Efrén Rivera Ramos
Publisher: Amer Psychological Assn
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781557986702

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"The Legal Construction of Identity: The Judicial and Social Legacy, of American Colonialism in Puerto Rico investigates how the relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico has been created and recreated over the past 100 years. More specifically, author Efren Rivera Ramos engages in the lively exploration of how law has contributed to the construction of a particular social reality embodied by the colonial relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico." "Dr. Rivera Ramos argues that legal constructs and norms govern the struggle for the definition of a specific Puerto Rican identity. This struggle includes the tension between claiming rights of U.S. citizenship and participation on the one hand and asserting a separate cultural identity, on the other. In this sense, the law has been a crucial arbiter of self-determination and self-perception as many Puerto Ricans strive to form a distinct national identity. This book will appeal to social scientists and legal scholars interested in the symbiotic relationship between law and society."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Identity, Personhood and the Law

Identity, Personhood and the Law
Author: Charles Foster
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 77
Release: 2017-03-14
Genre: Law
ISBN: 3319534599

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This book is an examination of how the law understands human identity and the whole notion of ‘human being’. On these two notions the law, usually unconsciously, builds the superstructure of ‘human rights’. It explores how the law understands the concept of a human being, and hence a person who is entitled to human rights. This involves a discussion of the legal treatment of those of so-called "marginal personhood" (e.g. high functioning non-human animals; humans of limited intellectual capacity, and fetuses). It also considers how we understand our identity as people, and hence how we fall into different legal categories: such as gender, religion and so on.The law makes a number of huge assumptions about some fundamental issues of human identity and authenticity – for instance that we can talk meaningfully about the entity that we call ‘our self’. Until now it has rarely, if ever, identified those assumptions, let alone interrogated them. This failure has led to the law being philosophically dubious and sometimes demonstrably unfit for purpose. Its failure is increasingly hard to cover up. What should happen legally, for instance, when a disease such as dementia eliminates or radically transforms all the characteristics that most people regard as foundational to the ‘self’? This book seeks to plug these gaps in the literature.

The Oxford Handbook of the Human Essence

The Oxford Handbook of the Human Essence
Author: Martijn van Zomeren
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2018
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0190247576

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Oxford Handbooks offer authoritative and up-to-date reviews of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned chapters from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates, as well as a foundation for future research. Oxford Handbooks provide scholars and graduate students with compelling new perspective upon a wide range of subjects in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Book jacket.

The Oxford Handbook of Diversity in Organizations

The Oxford Handbook of Diversity in Organizations
Author: Regine Bendl
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 673
Release: 2015
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199679800

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Description of the foundations of organizing and managing diversities, and multidisciplinary, intersectional and critical analyses on key issues.