ABSTRACT
New cultural norms and restrictions emerge incessantly, concurrent with the changing conditions of life. By emphasizing the great power of everyday individuals in being the impetus behind rule and norm creation, Friedrich Hayek and others downgraded the role of governmental bodies in the creation of restrictions on human behaviour. The observance of many cultural rules is generally guaranteed through a mechanism of internalized values and the feeling of shame that ensues when one violates them. Many cultural rules limit freedoms for all people, while some only limit freedoms of certain groups. The existence of cultural rules is guaranteed to a great degree by the dominant political and social order. Restrictions grow out of overlapping socio-cultural and rational-legal rules, and they inhibit the freedom of choice for the people, even while the majority of the people underplay the importance of such restrictions in directing everyday life.
