<div class="xblock xblock-public_view xblock-public_view-vertical" data-course-id="course-v1:MITx+21A.819.2x+3T2021" data-init="VerticalStudentView" data-request-token="1c881eb0304611f195300ea3b3d414b7" data-has-score="False" data-usage-id="block-v1:MITx+21A.819.2x+3T2021+type@vertical+block@c618f1e80b084e7eb1335dc05752a490" data-block-type="vertical" data-runtime-version="1" data-runtime-class="LmsRuntime" data-graded="False"> <h2 class="hd hd-2 unit-title">Watch: Resilience of Law: Stories from Everyday Life</h2> <div class="vert-mod"> <div class="vert vert-0" data-id="block-v1:MITx+21A.819.2x+3T2021+type@html+block@144b5f90bb284a089e476110639f4002"> <div class="xblock xblock-public_view xblock-public_view-html xmodule_display xmodule_HtmlBlock" data-course-id="course-v1:MITx+21A.819.2x+3T2021" data-init="XBlockToXModuleShim" data-request-token="1c881eb0304611f195300ea3b3d414b7" data-has-score="False" data-usage-id="block-v1:MITx+21A.819.2x+3T2021+type@html+block@144b5f90bb284a089e476110639f4002" data-block-type="html" data-runtime-version="1" data-runtime-class="LmsRuntime" data-graded="False"> <script type="json/xblock-args" class="xblock-json-init-args"> {"xmodule-type": "HTMLModule"} </script> <h3 style="background-color: #28a6de; font-size: 20px; color: #256a97; height: 35px; text-indent: 10px; padding-top: 10px; border-radius: 3px;"><strong><span style="color: #ffffff;">Read: Introduction to Constructing Theory</span></strong></h3> <p></p> <p>Before we move on to the topics of memo writing, synthesizing codes, abstracting patterns, generalizing and building theory, I want to offer you more detail from my own work.  I do so to give you an overview and big picture of the project because I use the data, the tools, and analyses as examples for each step of the process.  You have already seen some pieces from this work – when I showed you the interview transcript with handwritten codes, as well as the codebooks.</p> <p>Here, we have a video of a lecture – not an interactive class but a formal lecture, delivered February 11, 2020 at MIT.  The lecture title was “The Resilience of Law: Stories From Everyday Life.”  I gave a bit of the history of the project and then the results, that were published in the book, The Common Place of Law: Stories from Everyday Life (Ewick and Silbey 1998, University of Chicago press.)  <strong>If you do not wish to watch the entire talk – about 45 minutes – you should begin at minute 22:00, where I discuss the methods and then the results. </strong></p> <p>This will be a useful example of the kind of theory you can construct with this research method, as well as an overview of the process. It will also provide you useful context on this specific project, which we will discuss in greater detail in the next section. </p> <p></p> <h3 style="background-color: #28a6de; font-size: 20px; color: #256a97; height: 35px; text-indent: 10px; padding-top: 10px; border-radius: 3px;"><strong><span style="color: #ffffff;">Watch: Resilience of Law: Stories from Everyday Life</span></strong></h3> <p></p> <p><iframe width="800" height="500" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NG9TvaZajpg" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p> </div> </div> </div> </div>