This project aims to compare and analyze how ideas about law (especially individual rights) and the collective good become active in everyday organizational life in France and the United States. Project participants will contribute to a grounded theoretical framework along two dimensions: a macro-sociolegal analysis of the relationship between ideas about rights and the collective good in two different legal systems (civil law in France and common law in the United States) and systematic analyses of ideas about rights and the collective good via paired-comparisons of organizations in different sectors across the two countries, specifically private corporations, public schools and urban housing agencies, and non-profit religious organizations.
UC PI:
Calvin Morrill
Department of Sociology / School of Law, UC Berkeley
France PI:
Jérome Pélisse
Département de Sociologie / Centre de sociologie des organisations (CSO), Sciences Po Paris