Law and sociological knowledge.

Law repeatedly examines itself but neverthless there is no satisfying definition of what law is. Positive law is a rational and extremely precise corpus. Yet it does not succeed in ordering complex and ambiguous social relations. Law regulates each potential conflict; yet, instead of restoring a peaceful conditions it produces new conflicts. Moving from these contradictions. This essay ex amines the possibility of a sociological approach which takes into account the day-by-day dimension of this aspect of the social life. In this way the separation between the ethical and the cognitive side is overcome. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]