Law in the Relay Race of Social Regulation

The paper is devoted to the relay race (succession) of social regulators. Their race has been going on throughout the existence of humanity. Due to the economic transformation, four stages in the development of

society can be distinguished. The system of social regulators is extensive (there are 12 such systems in total). Only the leaders of the relay race, or basic social norms, are subjected to detailed analysis. The basic ones are the regulators responsible for vital social relations (management or power relations, property and deviations). Leadership in the social regulation relay race belongs to customs (in primitive society), then it passes to religious norms (in agrarian society). The rules of law are becoming dominant in an industrial society. Moral norms are becoming of paramount importance in the information society. This sequence is not accidental. The author hypothesizes that it is determined by the evolution of human consciousness and corresponds to its stages. The consciousness of humanity has traveled the following path: first, humanity relied on the visual perception of the world. Then, its auditory comprehension was added. Then the humanity comprehended it through the activity and, finally, it resorted to analytical comprehension. Having fulfilled its role as the main means of regulation, a basic social regulator transfers the leadership mission to another regulator more suitable for the changed social conditions. However, the social norms that have given way to leadership continue to perform regulatory functions, but now they are of secondary nature. Humanity’s intellectual accumulations remain, and it would be wasteful to dismiss them altogether.

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