ABSTRACT
The comparison of the traffic light versus the traffic officer regulating an intersection provides important insights into grasping the strengths and the weaknesses of formal-technocratic and informal-dynamic legal models. Conceptual framework, which contrasts formal-technocratic and informal-dynamic control types, helps to analyze written rules and understand how they relate to other aspects of a regulation culture. Max Weber analyzed complex social phenomena by comparing reality to certain ideal types. He believed that defining these ideal types was an important task of sociology. The formal legal paradigm received significant criticism within the field of sociology of law, especially by legal realists, who studied the "living law," that is, what actually happens in society, and contrasted their findings against the formal paradigm's promises. In addition to impersonalizing social relations, territorial controls make it easy to exclude activities from territories. Robert David Sack calls this process the thinning out process, that is, making more and more places containers of just one type of activity.
