HEURISTIČKA ANALIZA NAUČNOG POLJA PRAVO I DRUŠTVO KROZ PRIZMU SOCIOLOGIJE PRAVNIH PROFESIJA
HEURISTIC ANALYSIS OF THE FIELD OF LAW AND SOCIETY THROUGH THE LENS OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF LEGAL PROFESSIONS

Summary/Abstract: Law and society is an interdisciplinary field of research traditionally rooted in law, particularly in an institutional sense. In this paper, the field is heuristically analyzed as a scientific field, following the approach of Pierre Bourdieu. The emphasis is placed on the internal configuration of the field, with an attempt to identify and map the disciplinary movements and currents that constitute its cognitive base. Viewed through the lens of the sociology of legal professions, the analysis suggests that the cognitive base of the law and society field reflects less a genuine disciplinary interconnectedness and more the effects of the field’s underlying logic at the institutional level. The discussion proceeds through four interrelated disciplinary instances. The first concerns the sociology of law, the second the sociology of professions, the third the sociology of legal professions, and the fourth domestic sociology of (legal) professions. This analytical sequence corresponds to the structure of the article.

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