ABSTRACT
Sociology is a nomographic science. Its aim is to discover uniformities in society and to systematically describe them in the form of "natural laws," whereas the description of concrete or individual phenomena, insofar as they are at all scientifically relevant, belongs to the task of idiographic sciences. The determination of human behavior by the specific social force called law takes place within social groups. A social group is an organic structure, a concrete system. The type of observation studies overt human behavior in general as determined by law or relative to law. Material collected by those pursuing the sociological trend in jurisprudence may be very useful, insofar as it shows how the rigid legal formulae are transformed in actual life, or how unjust or antiquated laws are avoided. The delimitation between the philosophy of law, on the one hand, and jurisprudence and the sociology of law, on the other, is perhaps more a postulate than a proposition expressing historical truth.
