A Socio-legal and Epistemological Analysis of Jurisprudence

The sociology of law deals with the socio-legal study on legal phenomena. Jurisprudence, in its specified meaning, includes thoughts, rules and methods and judicial procedures that have been gradually created by judicial interpretations and decisions of judges. In this article, we seek to analyze "jurisprudence" theoretically and sociologically. We examined the status and importance of jurisprudence and its relationship with other legal sources in the framework of legal system. Appealing to theories in the sociology of knowledge, we finally imagined a significant and specified role for jurisprudence in legal system and in relation to other legal sources.