@article{Shela Van Ness,_2010, place={Washington DC: American Sociological Association.}, title={A Research Project Examining the Role of Law in Creating Social Change}, url={https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/a-research-project-examining-the-role-of-law-in}, abstractNote={Law has been used as a creator of accelerator of social change, as well as a response to changing public norms. This assignment challenges students to examine laws which were intended to bring about social change. It can be used in the introductory sociology of law course, or in an upper division course in social change and the law, and be assigned as either a group or individual assignment. The assignment allows students to better understand the process of creating law and garnering public support for it. William Evans set forth seven conditions for successful creation of social change by use of the law (in Alvin Gouldner and S. M. Miller, Applied Sociology: Opportunities and Problems. Free Press, 1990; pp. 285-293). The assignment is particularly useful for helping students understand connections between social structural processes, how laws are framed and then received by society.}, journal={TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology}, author={Shela Van Ness,}, year={2010}, month={Apr.} }