SOCIO-ANTHROPOLOGICAL FEATURES OF LEGAL THOUGHT: A SOCIO-PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS
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This article examines legal thought through the lens of social anthropology, shifting the focus from formal dogmas and institutions to the processes of creation, legitimation, and functioning of law within specific human communities. The aim of the work is to reveal law as a cultural phenomenon, embedded in social practices, belief systems, and structures of everyday life. The evolution of legal thought is analyzed, from the indivisible unity of myth, custom, and morality in archaic societies to the complex interaction of official law and folk normative orders in modern pluralistic systems. It is concluded that the socio-anthropological approach reveals the multiplicity and contextuality of legal systems, their deep connection with collective identity, and offers tools for analyzing problems of integration and justice in multicultural societies.
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