The Sociology of Law – The Privileged Viewpoint for the Dissection of the Modern Society
The Sociology of Law – The Privileged Viewpoint for the Dissection of the Modern Society

Summary/Abstract: The presented expose aims at proving that the so-called ‘field’ or ‘specialized’ sociological sciences, among which falls the sociology of law, contain in themselves the whole scope of problems, that are traditionally considered as belonging to the subject of the ‘general’ sociology. It is widely assumed that being ‘specialized’ or ‘field’ the discipline sociology of law should be interested into and investigating a ‘specialized’ problem. This assumption pre-supposes that the sociology of law should – by definition – have a limited scientific subject. However, the sociology of law studies and investigated the legal regulation. And in the modern society the law is the core, fundamental regulator that encompasses almost all spheres of social activity. Therefore by investigating the modern legal regulation, the sociology of law must – if it wants to be adequate to its subject matter – perform a specific ‘dissection’ of the whole corpus of the modern socium from a specific point of view. In our case this is the genesis and the functioning of the contemporary legal regulations in all spheres of social activities. Thus, being a ‘field’ science by definition, the sociology of law is bound – because of its subject – to expand over the whole spectrum of social practices – both as a historical genesis and as a lasting presence. In the end we come to the point that the sociology of law, although defined as a specialized discipline, should deal with the society as a whole.

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