Social rule is fundamentally an attempt by human agents to organize and regulate society by establishing a framework that guides individual conduct and interaction. The rules are considered as widely accepted customs and conventions that do not fall within the bounds of formal laws. These rules mostly arise from interactions among people who go about developing the conventions that facilitate and guide their contact.
Social rules are not static and what may be acceptable today may not be tomorrow because of the dynamic nature of human social interactions. Changing social circumstances determine what is normal (norms) and what is not at the time. Although some of the social rules are universally acceptable and applied, some rules differ from one society to the next. These differences may also be exhibited in context and application. For instance, bowing towards each other is a socially acceptable rule in greetings among people of some Asian societies. On the other hand, bowing towards each other in Jewish culture is unacceptable.
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