Editing Legality (section)

== Definitions ==
Vicki Schultz<ref>{{cite journal|jstor=1341317|title=Telling Stories about Women and Work: Judicial Interpretations of Sex Segregation in the Workplace in Title VII Cases Raising the Lack of Interest Argument|first=Vicki|last=Schultz|date=1 January 1990|journal=Harvard Law Review|volume=103|issue=8|pages=1749–1843|doi=10.2307/1341317|url=https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/4978}}</ref> states that we collectively have a shared knowledge about most concepts. How we interpret the reality of our actual understanding of a concept manifests itself through the different individual narratives that we tell about the origins and meanings of a particular concept. The difference in narratives, about the same set of facts, is what divides us. An individual has the ability to frame, or understand, something very differently than the next person. Evidence does not always lead to a clear attribution of the specific cause or meaning of an issue – meanings are derived through narratives. Reality, and the facts that surround it, are personally subjective and laden with assumptions based on clearly stated facts. Anna-Maria Marshall<ref>{{cite journal|title=Injustice Frames, Legality, and the Everyday Construction of Sexual Harassment|journal=Law & Social Inquiry|first=Anna-Maria|last=Marshall|date=1 July 2003|volume=28|issue=3|pages=659–689|doi=10.1111/j.1747-4469.2003.tb00211.x|s2cid=145186120}}</ref> states, this shift in framing happens because our perceptions depend "on new information and experiences"; this very idea is the basis of Ewick and Sibley definition of legality – our everyday experiences shape our understanding of the law.

Ewik and [[Joel H. Silbey|Silbey]] define "legality" more broadly as "those meanings, sources of authority, and cultural practices that are in some sense legal although not necessarily approved or acknowledged by official law. The concept of legality the opportunity to consider how where and with what effect law is produced in and through commonplace social interactions.&nbsp;... How do our roles and statuses our relationships, our obligations, prerogatives and responsibilities, our identities and our behavoiurs bear the imprint of law."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K0Vgm5KYYjsC|title=Global Legal Pluralism: A Jurisprudence of Law Beyond Borders|first=Paul Schiff|last=Berman|date=27 February 2012|publisher=Cambridge University Press|via=Google Books|isbn=978-0-521-76982-2}}</ref>

In a paper on ''Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics and Legality'', legality is defined taking the state's role in to account  as "The system of laws and regulations of right and wrong behavior that are enforceable by the state (federal, state, or local governmental body in the U.S.) through the exercise of its policing powers and judicial process, with the threat and use of penalties, including its monopoly on the right to use physical violence."<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.2139/ssrn.920625|title=Integrity: A Positive Model that Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics and Legality|year=2009|last1=Erhard|first1=Werner|last2=Jensen|first2=Michael C.|last3=Zaffron|first3=Steve|s2cid=142746354}}</ref>