Individual Rights and Social Order

Individual Rights and Social Order
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Individual Rights and Social Order
The mandate to protect the lives and property of individuals remains a fundamental component of various legal systems of the world. In the U.S., citizens are accorded individual rights in the Bill of Rights, which protects them from various infringements by other individuals or the government. Amidst such rights and liberties lies the need for social order. Hence, the law has extended to instil some limitations that could extend to the need to pursue social order. Often, questions are asked on avenues of balancing individual rights with the need to anchor social behaviors and interactions on a status quo. This paper delves into individual rights and social order by exploring various prospects, including informal and formal controls, the evolution of disputes, impacts of the law on social change, and the value of both substantive and procedural law. A detailed understanding of individual rights and social order is a valuable tool as it extends to defining the scope of the legal systems and the interactions between the law and social controls, which are necessary for a society in which legal and social prospects keep antagonizing one another.
Difference in Formal and Informal Social Controls
Social control is a fundamental element of contemporary litigious societies with impacts on how individuals are regulated. Social control implies avenues by which societies regulate human behaviors (Hartley, Rabe, & Champion, 2018). Often, social controls are instilled to create a sense of equilibrium in the behaviors of individuals. However, there are behaviors that societies consider deviant, which are effectively regulated through different avenues of social control. Formal and informal social control avenues are the primary approaches that societies use to regulate human behaviors. Formal control is the avenues or mechanisms that take the formal approach. That is, formal control mechanisms are written, approved, and are official. In this case, rules and laws encompass the formal controls that are employed in controlling behaviors.
Conversely, informal controls are unwritten avenues of controlling behaviors. Prospects such as values, norms, and traditions are tools of informal social control. Societies can employ either formal or informal inputs to resolve most situations that they face.
There are notable differences between formal and informal social control systems. Primary among the differences is on the enforcing units. While the informal social control avenues are enforced by families, workplaces, religious institutions, and schools, the formal control practices are enforced by institutions such as government agencies, judicial courts, and the police (Hartley, Rabe, & Champion, 2018). The other difference between the two controls is the type of society in which they are applied. As informal control is applied in small and rural communities, formal control mechanisms are applied in large urban societies. Ultimately, the two prospects differ on the nature of quality, with formal control showcasing the characteristics of being repressive, punitive, and imposed while info...