In legal research methods from normative legal research and sociological or empirical legal research. Meanwhile, sociological or empirical legal research is a study of legal identification and legal effectiveness in social dynamics. For this reason, the law is often connected with social dynamics
sociological legal research is not legal research. According to him, sociological legal research and legal research only have the same object, namely law. Sociological legal research only places law as a social phenomenon, and law is only seen from the outside, and the topics are often the effectiveness of law, obedience to law, implementation of law, law and social problems or vice versa. For this reason, law is always placed as the dependent variable and non-legal factors affecting the law are seen as independent variables. In sociological legal research to analyze hypotheses, data is needed, so that the results obtained are to accept or reject the proposed hypothesis.
In contrast to legal research, which is not looking for answers to legal effectiveness, he therefore stated that in legal research there are no known terms hypotheses, independent variables, data, samples or qualitative and quantitative analysis, all that is needed is an understanding of the law which reviewed. Legal research is carried out to solve legal issues raised so that the results provide a prescription of what should be.

In my opinion, I don’t need to blame each other. But what is certain is that the debate about Pure Legal Theory and Sociological Jurisprudance (sociological law) is not only … Read More


