ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the relationships between social and legal norms in general. Normativity in a socio-legal sense is made up by the combinations between the social and the legal spheres, be that conflicting or consensual manifestations. This position calls for an approach with the ability to cover various combinations between social and legal norms making up different kinds of normativity. Legal theorists, for example, tend to focus on the imperatives, and accordingly tend to omit aspects of regularities or social functions. For social psychologists, norms are connected to the ways in which meaning is constructed. For economists and game theorists, norms are connected to patterns of actions and thus explain features such as cooperation. Hyden advocates the differentiation between moral, social and systemic norms, arguing that, empirically, conscience, social community and societal systems make up different sources of norms. Legal norms would then be norms originating from the legal system.
