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If we can draw a preliminary conclusion from the previous chapters, it is that sociological theory and the social sciences in general have not yet articulated or proposed in a convincing and organic way a theory of the motives of human behavior that can adequately explain the legal phenomenon. In part, this is because, as Gallino (1982, p. 99) has argued, the social sciences have until recently been deprived of a theory of social behavior, stuck as they were in the dogma of social individuality conceived as a blank slate, and in the extremist positions of culturalism.

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