Summary
Jean Carbonnier: Legal Sociology
Sometimes the term legal sociology is given a broader meaning than the term sociology of law. Sociology of law would be limited to what represents only law, rules and institutions, while legal sociology would include all phenomena more or less colored by law, phenomena for which law can be a cause, consequence or reason, including the occurrence of violations, inefficiencies, deviations. As far as we are concerned, it seems scientifically useful to keep the widest field of study, because there are no, even distant and distorted, reflections of law that cannot contribute to its knowledge. But we will, in this field of study, by agreement, accepted once and for all, apply, without distinction, one or the other term: sociology of law or legal sociology.
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