Theory Of Pound’s Legal Civilization

Roscoe Pound as a great jurisprudent of20th centry created the Sociological Jurisprudence. Many of his theories related to the view of legal civilization. Can even say that his theory of interest and social control theories are based on his concept of legal civilization as a starting point.He believes that the organization of human society in the transition from a kin-organized society to a politically organized society to a religion organized society then to a political organized society, respectively, through three stages to moral, religious, legal as the primary means of social control. All of these serves for the legal civilization by inheriting, maintaining and developing the civilization. Taking the law as the main target, discuss the source of legal authority and status in different periods. Then he divided the human civilization into three types as moral civilization, religious civilization and legal civilization.By the following section, explain Pound’s real view of legal civilization by discussing the theory of Pound’s legal civilization. The first section is the background and narrative structure of the article, which explain the background of the theory of Pound’s legal civilization, clarify the concept and types of civilization and declare the states and logic of the research. In the second section, the theory of Pound’s legal civilization has been narrated and rebuilded. Analyzing the sources of his theory and his basic views, reconstructed on Pound’s concept of civilizations by the form of social organization, ideal element of law and the primary methods of social control. The third section rethinks the theory of legal civilization of Pound, and elaborates the function of the civilization in understanding his Sociological Jurisprudence. Then, comparative analysis of Pound, Berman and Weber’s theory.