Sociological Jurisprudence

Author: edited by Zhu Jingwen
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: "I believe that the goal of undergraduate legal education is to cultivate basic legal talents—individuals who possess common knowledge of social life and fundamental qualities for a legal career." — Jiang Ping
The structure of this book consists of four parts: Part 1: Concepts, Frameworks, and Methodology of Sociology of Law; Part 2: Law in Action; Law, Discretion, and Transaction; Part 3: Research on the Role of Society in Law; Part 4: Research on the Role of Law in Society. The content of the entire book broadly covers some of the major issues in sociological research of law.
The author of Sociology of Law has also referred to some new research findings both domestically and internationally, particularly empirical research findings, striving to reflect the forefront of the discipline and provide students with fresh knowledge. It should be noted that the development of sociology of law in China, like many other disciplines, follows a three-step approach: Step 1, in the early stages, primarily involved introducing general conclusions from research, proving or refuting conclusions drawn from foreign studies. Clearly, after years of development, sociological research in China can no longer remain at the level of introducing foreign theories and methods; instead, the focus must shift to researching Chinese issues. During the writing of this book, we paid special attention to empirical materials from China in recent years. However, overall, we have not yet reached the third step—proposing well-founded challenges to foreign theories of sociology of law. I believe that, combined with China's practices, truly understanding theories already proposed abroad is the primary task for us at this stage.