A General Jurisprudence of Law and Society is a theoretical and sociological exploration of the relationship between law and society. Law is generally understood to be a mirror of society a reflection of its customs and morals that functions to maintain social order. Focusing on this common understanding, the book conducts a survey of Western legal and social theories about law and its relation…
It is characteristic of non-instrumental views that the content of law is, in some sense, given; that law is immanent; that the process of law-making is not a matter of creation but one of discovery; that law is not the product of human will; that law has a kind of autonomy and internal integrity; that law is, in some sense, objectively determined.
In earlier days, many of those who worked in the field of socio-legal studies were perhaps less given to scholarly introspection than their colleagues located more centrally in some of the fields of social science or philosophy