Middle Class Lawyers: The Transformation of Small Firm Practice (Law and Social Science): VPW

中产阶级律师：小律师事务所实践的转型（法律和社会科学）：VPW

• 批准号: 9103271
• 负责人: Carroll Seron
• 金额: $ 12.59万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-09-01 至 1992-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9103271&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Middle; Class; Lawyers; Transformation; Small

This project looks at the work of small-firm and solo legal practitioners as they confront new opportunities to market and advertise services, incorporate innovative ways to computerize offices, and respond to the entry of women into the labor market. In various and complicated ways, each of these developments captures essential themes of the late twentieth century and challenges traditional professional practices. The ways in which these legal practitioners describe and understand their life-style, values, aspirations, expectations, and commitments provide an entry point for examining contemporary economic, political, and social values of urban America. This effort addresses a significant and little-studied issue in law and social science, how developments in marketing, technology, and the participation of women in the law labor force have affected small and solo practitioner firms. It furthers VPW program objectives to provide opportunities for women to advance their careers in science or engineering through research, and to encourage other women to pursue careers in these areas through the investigators' enhanced visibility as role models on the host campuses. In this project, the proposed activities which contribute to the second objective include: teaching a graduate course in the sociology department, and giving seminars at the law school, sociology department, and Center for the Study of Women.

该项目着眼于小型和独奏法律从业人员的工作，他们面对新的市场机会和宣传服务的机会，结合了计算机化办公室的创新方式，并响应妇女进入劳动力市场。 这些发展中的每一个都以各种而复杂的方式捕获了20世纪后期的基本主题，并挑战了传统的专业实践。 这些法律从业人员描述和理解其生活方式，价值观，愿望，期望和承诺的方式为研究了美国城市的当代经济，政治和社会价值提供了一个切入点。 这项努力解决了法律和社会科学中一个重大且鲜为人知的问题，营销，技术的发展以及妇女参与法律劳动力的参与如何影响了小型独奏从业人员公司。它进一步推进了VPW计划的目标，为妇女提供了通过研究来推进其科学或工程职业的机会，并鼓励其他妇女通过调查人员在主持人校园中作为榜样的可见性来从事这些领域的职业。 在该项目中，促成第二个目标的拟议活动包括：在社会学部门教授研究生课程，并在法学院，社会学系和妇女研究中心举行研讨会。