Jogélet
Jogélet is a term used in Hungarian legal sociology to denote the lived experience of law in everyday life. It refers to how legal norms, processes, and institutions are interpreted, internalized, and acted upon by individuals and communities outside formal settings. The concept emphasizes the gap between law as written and law as practiced, and it investigates how people navigate rights, duties, and sanctions in ordinary situations.
The term jogélet is a compound of the Hungarian words jog and élet, literally meaning “law life.”
Scope and applications of jogélet include how people comply with or resist regulations, interpret ambiguous laws,
Methodologically, studies of jogélet often employ ethnographic, qualitative, or mixed-method approaches to capture the nuances of
See also: sociology of law, legal anthropology, lived law, rule of law.