ABSTRACT
Statements belonging to the domain of the sociology of law were made from the very beginning of the attempts to discover the essence of law. If the history of an idea is to be something more than a collection of sociological statements, it must stress "primary impulses" corresponding to invention in technology and show their influence on the further development. As the sociology of law is an attempt to apply the concepts and the methods of one science, sociology, to objects traditionally studied by another science, jurisprudence, and as both sociology and jurisprudence are divided into many schools using different methods. In 1895 R. Worms published an article in which, operating with the idea of the rational classification of sciences, he assimilated the science of law to the comparative history of legal phenomena and denied the possibility of a juridical science of another type.
