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Law is a factor or an aspect of social life. This means that the law and not just a set of rules as such is an island in a given society. The law takes place in each particular society by groups and forces that operate unevenly in it, so it is part of that society as found in relation to other social factors. The relationships that exist between law and other social factors (economic, political, cultural, etc.). Are interdependent. Hence it is claimed that the law must be understood in reference to the social context in which it appears and which is projected. The rules, in particular, and the right, arising globally considered, in principle, to respond to regulate and provide regulated legal treatment to different social situations and on the other hand, when these standards are applied, a series of effects social may not coincide with the expectations that the legislator had in producing the standard. Neither the law is independent of social phenomena, nor is one utterly dependent variable of society, so that legal norms and social standards are interchangeable. Certainly the law is very broad areas projected onto social reality, but not identical in all dimensions with them and all behaviours that occur in them, but regulates some of these behaviours, and in doing so also active in the change processes of the various social factors.
What is at issue is to highlight the status of legal phenomena, especially when we can see, on one hand, the law stems from different social realities, and second, that the production or modification of legal when applied to social effects.