The French political-legal experience in understanding the social transformations of the second half of the nineteenth century

The article analyzes the social transformations that took place in France in the discourse of political and legal understanding in the second half of the nineteenth century. There are considered the basic views on the conception “social transformation”. It is shown that social transformations can be defined as social changes, including various parts, and that cause the emergence of new social ties. This approach is acceptable for both social science and sociology of law. Social changes mediated by normative- legal acts that affected the electoral system, as its particular elements and the press generally through the mediation of social relations and social movements, which the state was legally enshrined in the early of the twentieth century, are characterized for France of the second half of the nineteenth century. The correlation of specific elements of the social system was a result of social changes which contributed to the overcoming of social stratification in French society, in a way. In the article the conclusion is made about the features of social transformation inherent in France in the second half of the nineteenth century.