prelim year 1
For not following the customs there may not be a
punishment, or a person may be criticized by the society; rules of a social institution tend to
carry precise penalties but they are not enforceable by any political authority; however
governments use a system of courts backed by the power of the police to enforce the laws
they have made.
The relations between people are regulated by a combination of all these rules.
One of the ways to classify laws is to separate them into prescriprive and descriptive law.
Descriptive laws simply describe how people usually behave. For example law of gravity- if a
person throws an apple up in the air, then it’s very likely that it falls down again.
Other laws are prescriptive- they prescribe how people should or should not behave. For
example, the law says that the minor can’t drink alcohol, but in spite of that rule, they still do.
Relations between people are regulated by prescriptive laws. Some of them are customs –
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