iHE STUDY OF LAW IN SOCIETY IN BRITAIN
iHE STUDY OF LAW IN SOCIETY IN BRITAIN
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英国社会法研究
DOI：
10.2307/3053297
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发表时间：
1976
影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
P. Wiles
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作者：
P. Wiles
《规范与行动》，一本土著学者的论文集，描述了他们国家的“法律与社会”研究。没有帐户的工作在英国包括在内，可能是因为有这么少的活动，在该领域的时间。然而，仅仅八年之后，似乎发生了显著的变化。本科生和研究生一级的课程激增;实证研究项目的数量正在扩大;建立了新的中心和研究所，出版了一系列书籍和一份专业杂志，各大学、研究委员会以及通过政府倡议提供了财政和机构支助。不久前，朗·富勒（Lon Fuller，1967：1）提出，研究美国社会法律运作的兴趣的增长“已经达到了某种类似知识运动的程度。“一些评论家倾向于以同样的方式看待英国最近的发展。但是，无论富勒对美国背景的分析是正确的，将其应用于英国的情况是危险的。英国学者只是发现了（比其他地方晚）一个新的研究领域，并大胆地开始探索，目前的活动的喧嚣表明已经有了一个有力的开端，这将是令人欣慰的。这将使我们能够预测一个健康的未来，并迅速提高我们对法律性质和运作的理解。然而，把目前的发展看作是偶然的，也许是过渡性的，是制度、政治和社会影响奇怪地串联在一起的产物，这也是有道理的。在这篇文章中，我们试图概述电流的性质。
Norms and Actions, a book of essays by indigenous scholars describing "law and society" research in their countries. No account of work in Britain was included, probably because there was so little activity in the field at that time. Yet only eight years later remarkable changes seem to have occurred. Courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level have proliferated; the number of empirical research projects is expanding; new centers and institutes have been established, series of books and a specialist journal have been launched, and financial and institutional support is provided by the universities, research councils, and through governmental initiatives. Not too long ago Lon Fuller (1967:1) suggested that the growth of interest in studying the operation of the law in American society had "come to assume the proportions of something like an intellectual movement." Some commentators are tempted to perceive recent British developments in like fashion. But whatever the truth of Fuller's analysis of the American setting, it is dangerous to apply it to the situation in Britain. It would be reassuring to think that British academics simply discovered (rather later than elsewhere) a novel field of inquiry and boldly set out to explore it, and that the clamor of current activity indicates a vigorous beginning has been made. This would allow us to predict a healthy future and the rapid enhancement of our understanding of the nature and operation of law. It is just as plausible, however, to regard the current developments as fortuitous and perhaps transitionalthe product of a curious concatenation of institutional, political and social influences. In this article we attempt to sketch the nature of current