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139
Eg see the essays collected in Victoria E Bonnell and Lynn Hunt (eds), Beyond the Cultural Turn:
New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture (1999).
140
Stewart Macaulay, ‘Non-Contractual Relations in Business: A Preliminary Study’ (1963) 28
American Sociological Review 55.
141
Belinda Fehlberg, Sexually Transmitted Debt: Surety Experience and English Law (1997).
142
Patricia Ewick and Susan S Silbey, The Common Place of Law: Stories from Everyday Life (1998).
143
Austin Sarat and Thomas R Kearns (eds), Law in Everyday Life (1993).
144
William M O’Barr and John M Conley, ‘Law Expectations of the Civil Justice System’ (1988) 22
Law & Society Review 137.
145
Rosemary Hunter and Alice Leonard, The Outcomes of Conciliation in Sex Discrimination Cases
(1995).
146
Eg Anna Byas, ‘Post-Separation Parenting – What’s law got to do with it?’ paper presented at 7th
Annual Australian Institute of Family Studies Conference, Sydney (2000) copy on file with author, see
generally <http://www.aifs.org.au>. The bulk of Australian empirical legal research has focused on
legal actors: eg Richard Ingleby, In the Ball Park: Alternative Dispute Resolutions and the Courts
(1991); Johnstone, above n 138; John Dewar and Stephen Parker (with Barbara Tynan and Donna
Cooper), Parenting, Planning and Partnership: The impact of the new Part VII of the Family Law Act
1975 (2000).
147
Eg see Peter Goldring and Philip, Making the News (1979) 114-5.
148
Lauren B Edelman and Mark C Suchman, ‘The Legal Environments of Organizations’ (1997) 23
Annual Review of Sociology 479. For an introduction to new institutionalism, see Walter W Powell
and Paul J DiMaggio (eds), The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis (1991).
149
Marco Orru, Nicole Woolsey Biggart and Gary G Hamilton, ‘Organizational Isomorphism in East
Asia’ in Powell and DiMaggio, ibid 361.
150
Edelman and Suchman, above n 148, 503.
151
Ibid.
152
Timothy Marjoribanks, ‘The “anti-Wapping”? Technological innovation and workplace
reorganization at the Financial Times’ (2000) 22 Media, Culture and Society 575.
153
Timothy Marjoribanks, News Corporation, Technology and the Workplace. Global strategies, local
change (2000); Marjoribanks, ibid.
154
See eg Nicole Woolsey Biggart, ‘Institutional Logic and Economic Explanation’ in Jane Marceau
(ed), Reworking the World. Organisations, Technologies, and Cultures in Comparative Perspective
(1992) 29; Charles Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin (eds), Worlds of Possibilities: Flexibility and Mass
Production in Western Industrialization (1997); Steven Tolliday and Jonathan Zeitlin (eds), The Power
to Manage? Employers and Industrial Relations in Comparative Historical Perspective (1991).
155
Ellen Immergut, ‘The theoretical core of the new institutionalism’ (1998) 26 Politics and Society 5.
156
Barendt et al, above n 92.
157
See Part I, above, and eg Geoff McLay, ‘Lange v Atkinson: Not a Case for Dancing in the Streets’
[2000] New Zealand Law Review 427; Kevin Williams, ‘Defaming Politicians: The Not So Common
Law’ (2000) 63 Modern Law Review 748; Reynolds v Times Newspapers Ltd [1999] 4 All ER 609
(HL).
158
Two notable recent Australian instances of litigation, involving different media forms and
internationally mobile stories are Carrey v ACP Publishing [1998] VSC 78 (28 September 1998) and
Gutnick v Dow Jones & Co [2001] VSC 305 (28 August 2001).
159
John Pavlik, Journalism and New Media (2001) 217-19.
160
Austin Sarat and Thomas R Kearns, ‘Beyond the Great Divide: Forms of Legal Scholarship and
Everyday Life’ in Sarat and Kearns, above n 143, 59.
161
The value of multiple research methods is a hallmark of much leading sociological research, see eg
Fiona Devine and Sue Heath, Sociological Research Methods in Context (1999). See also, Norman K
Denzin and Yvonna S Lincoln (eds), Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials (1998).
162
This entails investigating, but moving beyond, journalists’ understandings in which much of the
news process may remain opaque: see eg, Louw, above n 100, 159-61.
163
Eg see Charles C Ragin, Constructing Social Research. The Unity and Diversity of Method (1994)
109.
164
George E Marcus, ‘Ethnography In/Of the World System: The Emergence of Multi-sited
Ethnography’ (1995) 24 Annual Review of Anthropology 95.
165
Ibid and eg Bonnell and Hunt, above n 139.
166
Ibid 96.
167
Eg see generally Pavlik, above n 159.
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