Legal Culture and empirical research: improving the socio-legal character of the sociology of law

Authors

  • Carlo Pennisi University of Catania

Keywords:

Legal culture, methodology, research design, cultura jurídica, metodología, diseño de investigación

Abstract

The aim of this special issue is to present empirical research outcomes and theoretical works that use the concept of legal culture to characterize the approach of the sociology of law. The papers presented were called for at the Oñati Workshop on Legal Culture and empirical research, originally planned for May 2020, but actually held in May 2021, on the initiative of the International Institute of Sociology of Law, and the Sociology of Law Section of the Italian Sociological Association. After an intense meeting, papers were submitted for the standard review process of the Iisl series. We considered that including the concept of legal culture into the research design and insisting on this focus for debate, could be a way of improving the socio-legal character of our research and settling the many disputes in a continuous debate. So, we looked for research experiences in which the concept of legal culture was used to configure legal phenomena in a specifically socio-legal way.

Este número especial presenta el enfoque teórico y metodológico para especificar el carácter de la sociología del derecho a través del concepto de cultura jurídica. La inclusión de este concepto en el diseño de la investigación socio-jurídica puede mejorar las preguntas hacia los fenómenos jurídicos e identificar mejor la perspectiva sociológica respecto a otras disciplinas y al conocimiento jurídico. Sin embargo, requiere una mejor especificación de lo que puede entenderse por cultura jurídica desde el punto de vista sociológico. Para ello, propone referir el concepto, con “jurídico”, a lo que es atribuible a la institucionalización jurídica de las dimensiones normativas de la vida social. “Cultura”, en cambio, se refiere a los componentes culturales a los que se recurre para reconectar esos procesos de institucionalización con las normas sociales, los valores y el contexto cultural y social más general del derecho.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1323

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Author Biography

Carlo Pennisi, University of Catania

Full Professor, University of Catania

Published

01-12-2022

How to Cite

Pennisi, C. (2022) “Legal Culture and empirical research: improving the socio-legal character of the sociology of law”, Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 12(6), pp. 1347–1357. Available at: https://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/1644 (Accessed: 29 April 2024).