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CohenDiscussionSummary 3 - 21 Feb 2008 - Main.JosephWilliams
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 Very few events are "direct" causes of social change. High court decisions clearly have some social consequence (though indirect), and I am not sure why it would be "more pragmatic" to view their capacity for change as centered on the microlevel... Don't we want to be aware that judicial decisions are influencing society, albeit indirectly?
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>		My understanding of Cohen's point was that judicial decisions are nexuses of social force. They are not independent events that shape society, nor are they effect-less endpoints of social forces. [Indeed. They exist between these two poles. J&J]
 _To invoke the overused metaphor of the human body, the human endocrine (hormone) system is a good example of a feedback device that is, in itself, neither an end nor a beginning. The release of a hormone has no "direct" effect, and is the result of a vast web of physiological interactions. Although it is extraordinarily complex, it seems strange to argue that we should only look at hormone regulation in a local and limited context, when clearly each "hormonal event" is the result and cause of changes throughout the body.

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