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Knowledge and Opinion about Law (KOL) research in socialist Hungary

Fekete, Balázs and H. Szilágyi, István (2017) Knowledge and Opinion about Law (KOL) research in socialist Hungary. Hungarian Journal of Legal Studies, 58 (3). pp. 326-358. ISSN 2498-5473

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Abstract

The critical assessment of the legacy of socialist jurisprudence is amongst one of the most difficult tasks of the post-transitory Central-European legal thinking. This study provides a critical reading of the findings of Hungarian socialist legal sociology with respect to the description and analysis of the socialist legal culture. The discussion starts with the first comprehensive empirical survey on the legal knowledge of the population, designed and carried out by Kálmán Kulcsár in 1965 and ends with András Sajó’s synthesis on the nature of the Hungarian socialist legal culture elaborated in his monograph entitled Illusion and Reality in Law, published in 1986. The paper’s main conclusion is that this two decades long ‘golden age’ of Hungarian legal sociology offers many valid points in both methodological and substantive terms contrary to the fact that the various findings were mainly elaborated under the pressure of official Marxism-Leninism.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: K Law / jog > K Law (General) / jogtudomány általában
Depositing User: László Sallai-Tóth
Date Deposited: 23 Feb 2018 08:06
Last Modified: 30 Sep 2019 23:15
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/74934

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