Morality on Trial

Baudouin Dupret (1)

1 ISP - Institut des Sciences sociales du Politique

This article analyses the structural organization of a ruling issued by an Egyptian court in the trial known as the "Queen Boat case" that made the international media headlines, where several people were arrested on the ground of their alleged homosexuality. With the text, and only the text, as data, it aims at making explicit the possibilities open to potential readers of the ruling. The praxiological study of texts constitutes a relatively new domain of inquiry in which texts are considered as produced objects whose intelligibility is structured and organized in a way that provides instructions for the texts' reading and accounts for their author's worldview and purposes.

Mots clés: Law; ruling; praxiological study of texts; instructed action; intelligibility systems and ressources; institutional context; legal relevance; procedural correctness; legal characterization

Domaines: Sociologie

Baudouin Dupret. Morality on Trial: Structure and intelligibility system of a court sentence concerning homosexuality. Qualitative Sociology Review, 2006, 2 (2), pp.7-31. ⟨halshs-00178461⟩