“民间法”研究的边界及其方法拓展

Boundary of“Folk Law”and Its Methodological Extension

法社会学的“活法”为“民间法”研究提供了对象,但“民间法”研究更需要纳入规范分析法学的框架内。以裁判规则构造为核心关注的“民间法”研究,实现了“民间法”和规范法学之间的逻辑关联。但此项研究存在着重重理论困局,外部观察者的视角使其无法捕捉“民间法”在日常生活实践中的真实运作。从学科边界拓展的视角,法社会学视野中的“民间法”研究应当进行更为彻底的社会分析,实现“民间法”研究视角由外部观察者研究到多元、综合的反身性视角转型,从而理解法律观念型构社会世界的复杂性。

The“living law”of sociology of law provides an object for the study of“folk law”,but the study of“folk law”needs to be brought into the framework of normative analytical law.The study of“folk law”,which focuses on the construction of judgment rules,realizes the logical relation between“folk law”and normative legal analysis.However,there are many theoretical difficulties in the study of“folk law”focusing on the construction of judgment rules,which cannot capture the real operation of“folk law”in daily life practice from the perspective of external observers.From the perspective of discipline boundary expansion,the study of“folk law”from the perspective of sociology of law should carry out a more thorough social analysis,so as to realize the transformation of the research perspective of“folk law”from the external observer to the multiple and comprehensive reflexivity perspective,and to understand the complexity of the social world of legal concept as a type of structure.