Methodological aspects of the research of the sociological concept of law in the USA

Abstract

The article analyzes the methodological aspects of the study of the sociological concept of law in the USA. It is noted that the most important question of a methodological nature is the question of the sociological concept of law in US jurisprudence of the 20th century. as a subject of research of historical and legal science, or its constituent history of political and legal studies. Given the fact that the sociological concept of law is one way or another studied by the philosophy of law, the theory of law, the question arises about the relationship between these sciences.
 The subject specificity of the history of legal thought and the history of the philosophy of law is shown. The relationship between the history of legal thought and the history of the philosophy of law is revealed to be of methodological importance for the study of the sociological concept of law in the jurisprudence of the USA of the 20th century, as it allows the formation of a methodology of knowledge based on philosophical and legal approaches and principles and a special methodological toolkit (methods and techniques) of the theory of law and philosophy rights Philosophical and legal conceptual approaches and principles have a worldview character in research and allow the use of concepts of the theory of legal understanding. In other words, the category sociological concept of law and as a result of its development sociological legal understanding has a philosophical meaning. The filling of this content took place with the help of various approaches and directions of general theoretical jurisprudence, in particular anthropological, etymological and legal. approaches of legal sociology. At the same time, this content (meaning) has a specific historical layer of knowledge. The content of the category “meaning” in the history of legal thought finds its fulfillment in the fact that it is connected with the understanding of the specifics of the studied era, the identification of its peculiar properties, the understanding of the studied teaching in its modern scientific and theoretical significance and cognitive value, the clarification of objective social significance (social meaning) and personal meaning (personal meaning) in the reproduction of past historical reality, reconstruction of historical situations.