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Introduction

• Topic: Conformity, Contestation, and Resistance in the study of legal consciousness by Patricia Ewick and Susan Silbey.

• Core idea: Our sense of self and social identity can be shaped by obedience to social structures, but our personal identity often emerges in the cracks through resistance.

• Key quotes:

  • “Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wider social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise through the little ways in which we resist the pull.”

  • “There is no single locus of great Refusal… Instead there