Legal sociology in the system of legal sciences

Abstract

Legal sciences (studies of law) are a comprehensive knowledge system of the
state and law, expressing themselves through a synthesis of notions, categories
and rules of the movements and developments of the state and law. In the
great system of legal sciences in Vietnam, legal sociology, in spite of its new
formation, plays a remarkable role. The question of carrying out extensive
researches on legal sociology has only been raised up in our country recently.
However, it is better late than never! The fact is that only when legal sociology is
seen as a separate branch of science can legal sciences themselves carry out
researches on several matters of legal sociology. In Vietnam, a lawyer might also
be at the same time a sociologist. That is, any notions and phenomena studied in law
are inseparable from the social basis and social factors which require, supervise, and
criticise legal rules and their corresponding activities of the state.