Roscoe Pound: The Sociological School Of Law

SOCIOLOGICAL SCHOOL

Imp Theorist: Roscoe Pound, Montesquieu

The sociological school of law is among the many theories that were framed by numerous scholars from time to time. The significance of individuals was proclaimed by theorists and scholars.

The sociological school came about with the inevitability to stabilise and promote the welfare of the civilisation and the individual. There was an inclination towards socialization. Thus, the importance of the society should be measured in light of the individual and the importance of the individual should be considered in light of the society. This view was called the sociological approach.

Montesquieu was the first thinker to take into account the influence of social conditions on the legal

Man has ever associated in groups and not as isolated individuals, and it was in these social groups and not isolated individuals that the impulses originated which cumulated in the establishment of law and government.

Roscoe Pound

It was while he was Dean and Carter Professor of Jurisprudence at the Harvard University from 1916 to 1936, that he published a series of articles on Sociological Jurisprudence.

Pound stated in his book that; The Sociological Movement in Jurisprudence is a movement in for pragmatism as a philosophy of law for putting human factors in the central place and relegating logic to its true place as an instrument.

It’s always busy in combating the exclusive consideration of any one of these factors and of a purely logical completeness of the law in particularly and emphasizing the final act of the balancing of interests.

His thoughts were formed by a constant confrontation of sociological problems, problems of legal history and problem of the works of American courts.

Theory of social

Some early Christians supported communal principles, as did the German Anabaptists during the sixteenth-century religious Reformation in Europe.

At least in terms of adherents and the impact on the world stage, Marxism–Leninism, also known colloquially as Bolshevism or simply communism is the biggest trend within Marxism, easily dwarfing all of the other schools of thought combined. Marxism–Leninism is a term originally coined by the CPSU in order to denote the ideology that Vladimir Lenin had built upon the thought of Karl Marx.

This school doesn’t reflect widely upon law, but suggests that law is essentially the reflection of the Haves as against the Have-nots. They use it to exercise their will.

Communism seeks to have all its citizens share goods equally in a communal system. Ideally, and this has yet to happen, there would be no class system in a communist country nor no privilaged status based on any religious identification.The huge failure of the Soviet Union clearly demonstrated how open to corruption and explotation of its public a communist system can be.A very current example of a nation that follows this is China. It is suggested to read about the law in china and its