Actionable methods for applying the sociological analysis of American law.
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- Read a case sociologically — read a legal proceeding as a social text, attending to what it produces rather than what it decides
- Identify evidentiary formatting — recognize when a cultural practice is being formatted into a legal credential
- Analyze legal recuperation — apply the five-step method to investigate how a proceeding absorbs subcultural forms
- Map credentialing incentives — trace the institutional incentive structure a legal precedent creates