Basketball in the Key of Law: The Significance of Disputing in Pick-Up Basketball Basketball in the Key of Law: The Significance of Disputing in Pick-Up Basketball.
While the conception of law as a constructive and constitutive force is often stated, we have relatively few concrete and grounded case studies showing precisely where and how social actors construct the meaning of their engagements through the invocation of legality. Drawing on Erving Goffman's Fra...
| Publicado en: | Law & Society Review Vol. 47; no. 3; pp. 653 - 686 |
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Cambridge University Press
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