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

这个项目着眼于小公司和个人法律的工作 从业者，因为他们面临新的机会，以市场和 广告服务，采用创新的方式来计算 办公室，并回应妇女进入劳动 市场 以各种复杂的方式， 发展抓住了20世纪后期的基本主题 世纪，挑战传统的专业实践。 的 这些法律的从业者描述和理解 他们的生活方式，价值观，愿望，期望， 承诺提供了一个切入点， 美国城市的经济、政治和社会价值观。 这一努力解决了一个重要的和很少研究的问题 在法律和社会科学中，市场营销的发展， 技术和妇女参与法律劳动 影响了小型和独立从业者的公司。它 促进VPW计划目标，为以下方面提供机会： 女性在科学或工程领域的职业发展 通过研究，并鼓励其他妇女追求 在这些领域的职业生涯，通过调查人员的增强 在主办校园中树立榜样。 在这 第二个项目的拟议活动， 目标包括：教授社会学研究生课程 系，并在法学院，社会学， 部门和妇女研究中心。

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.