Compliance with Legal Regulations: Observation of Stop Sign Behavior

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There is an age-old controversy over the relative importance and feasibility of formal and informal controls of human behavior. One body of theory, most notably the Sumner tradition, has held that control by formal laws is unimportant and dependent compared to controls by other means: “Acts of legislation come out of the mores. … Things which have been in the mores are put under police regulation and later under positive law. … The regulations must conform to the mores, so that the public will not think them too lax or too strict.”

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