Relational sociology, or the idea that relationships are the starting point for empirical research, offers comparative law distinctive analytical frameworks, heuristics, and methods. This Article proposes that these could advance traditional goals of comparative law by reconceiving fundamental categories of law, state, and society in relational terms while broadening the scope of useful comparison, and adopting a processual view of legal communities, legal knowledge, and culture rooted in practical action. It also highlights how comparative law offers sociology opportunities for deeper engagement with law, culture, transnationalism, and the dynamics of different normative orders. A relational analysis of disciplinary knowledge production suggests that deeper cross-disciplinary engagement has been limited less by shared interests than by the structures of academic knowledge production.

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关系社会学和比较法

关系社会学，或者说关系是实证研究的起点的观点，为比较法提供了独特的分析框架、启发式和方法。本文提出，这些可以推进比较法的传统目标，方法是在关系方面重新构想法律、国家和社会的基本类别，同时扩大有用比较的范围，并采用植根于法律社区、法律知识和文化的过程观实际行动。它还强调了比较法如何为深入参与法律、文化、跨国主义和不同规范秩序的动态提供社会学机会。