sociological jurisprudence
- sociological jurisprudence
A term coined by the American jurist Roscoe Pound (1870-1964) to describe his approach to the understanding of the law. Central to Pound's conception was the very suggestive idea that in modern societies the law represents the principal means through which divergent
interests are brought into some sort of alignment with one another. Unfortunately, perhaps because he was a jurist rather than a sociologist, he did not combine this insightful conception with a developed understanding of how these interests were formed and why some of them came to be privileged over others within the legal system. A sociologically informed account of Pound's work, which places it in the context of the historical development of the sociology of law, will be found in,
The Sociological Movement in Law, 1978.
Dictionary of sociology.
2013.
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