The Italian foundation presenting the 1983 prize cited him for combining the empiricism of American sociology with the theoretical thinking of European sociologists, thus contributing " toward a truly universal, general sociology, as opposed to the ` French,'` German,'and ` American'sociologies ."
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Gurvitch's social law was an integral part of his general sociology . " It is also one of the early sociological contributions to the theory of legal pluralism, since it challenged all conceptions of law based on a single source of legal, political, or moral authority ".
