Law as a Supreme System and Social Control Tool

Abstract

The phenomenon of positivism-based and social structure-based legal thinking has influenced legal thinking in Indonesia. The daily reality that occurs in society where the law plays a very important role as social control of society. Because without a written or unwritten legal regulation such as customary law, for example, life in society will not run harmoniously. The main sociological objects are family, politics, religion, control (social control). Sociology also highlights the reciprocal relationships between elements of society, such as the norms of family life, the relationship between political institutions and religious institutions. The process of legal development actually does not stop there, but can take place further. Until societal norms not only to be institutionalized in society but internalized, meaning that the level of development of each member of society behaves in line with behavior that meets the needs of society. To meet the needs of the community, it is necessary to form law as social control of the community, interpreted as a supervisor by the community over the course of government. Thus social control aims to achieve harmony between stability and change in society.