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　　　迄今为止，我们一直关注的是规范性法律理论，这种理论致力于从法律内部解释法律的概念。也就是说，规范性法律理论关注法律原则和规则、概念原则与法庭和律师在实际法律实践中所运用的其他观念之间的关系。但还有另一法律分析的研究路径，它试图通过诉讼现象运行的社会环境来理解这些现象的本质。这种社会学方法对法哲学产生了相当大的影响，虽然这种影响通常不被人承认。

  法律的社会学阐释通常要依赖三个紧密相连的主张，除非把法律看成是一种“社会现象”，否则无法理解，法律对法律概念的分析只能提供对“运行中的法律”的一种部分解释；法律仅仅是社会控制的一种形式。………………

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外文出处：Law And Society Philosophy Of Law 、Rarmond Wacks 、2008.9

　　　So far we have been preoccupied with normative legal theory, and its endeavours to explain the concept of law, as it were ,from witnin. That is to say, normative legal theory concentrates on legal doctrine and the relations between rules, concepts, principles, and other constructs employed by courts and lawyers engaged in the actual practice of the law. But there is another approach to legal analysis that attempts to understand the nature of these phenomena by reference to the social conditions in which they fuction,.This sociological approach has exercised a considerable influence, often unacknowledged, on the philosophy of law.

　　　  A sociological account of law normally rests on three closely related claims:that law can not be understood except as a “social phenomenon”,that an analysis of legal concepts provides only a partial explanation of “law in action”, and that law is merely one form of social control.………………