If a scholar pursues a research on legal sociology of Korean society, he/she needs to review what researches have been proceeded and accumulated. In a previous article, the writer reviewed a historical development of sociology of law in Korea. The art...
If a scholar pursues a research on legal sociology of Korean society, he/she needs to review what researches have been proceeded and accumulated. In a previous article, the writer reviewed a historical development of sociology of law in Korea. The article, however, had a limitation since it focused laregly on the selected articles and books of representing the main stream of sociology of law in Korea.
The following research on bibliography of sociology of law in Korea aims to supplement the previous research by providing a complete index of it. We subdivided the research fields of sociology of law into 17 appropriate headings to examine what kind of research had proceeded from 1945 to 2020. For example, the headings include history of Korean sociology of law, theory of legal sociology, methodology of legal sociology, law and social change, sociology of legal profession and judicial reform, conflict and resolution of dispute, and etc. This research will serve as an intellectual map to find out what kind of research has been performed in the area of sociology of law in Korea. We hope that this study will contribute to an academy which would further develop and deepen future studies in that area.
The bibliographical index included in this study reflects several points that are needed to further develop sociology of law in Korea. In the concluding chapter, we proposed suggestions regarding the matter; the need to extend empirical studies, the need to integrate and develop individual researches more organically, and the need to activate interdisciplinary studies.
This study will be tentative. When more researches are proceeded and accumulated, there will be a more completed bibliographical index of Korean sociology of law. We hope that there will be an opportunity to supplement the researches omitted in this index.