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How Laws Impact Our Lives And Cultural Practices As Society Changes

Author(s) Sagar Chauhan, Dr Bhawna Arora
Country India
Abstract Law and culture interconnect with one another, each impacting and guiding the other in complex, dynamic and symbiotic relationship. Legal systems are not empty frameworks in which states must be shaped to live in ongoing relations of domination and control but are enmeshed within, but constitutive of, their cultural, social, and historical conditions. This research, brings out the two-sided relationship between law and culture: how legal norms embody and stabilize cultural values while law is an instrument of ‘cultural change.’ The first section discusses the socially constructed and culturally relative nature of legal norms and shows the same using the interaction between law and law and the contention that laws are also socially constructed and culturally relative. It goes on to investigate how the law is a cultural artifact, and to see legal systems as the product of histories and cultures that articulate the social values out of which they emerge. The study in particular analyses how the law creates and forms the identities of citizen, gender, race, and the nation. In addition, the research relates the place of law in power and in authority exercised, the role of law in pursuing justice and its potential to bring about social change. This work shows the importance of the study of legal systems by making culture the object of study to have a basis for understanding how Laws affect society through the acceptance and acceptance of norms, change promotion and legal aid defence of rights and justice.
Keywords Law, Legal Norms, Culture, Identity, Socially Constructed, Justice, Social Change, Society.
Published In Volume 7, Issue 2, March-April 2025
Published On 2025-03-03
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i02.38237
Short DOI https://doi.org/g86wn4

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