Franz Kafka's parable Before the Law tells of the man from the country and his interactions with the doorkeeper. Kafka's message includes the idea that laws are kept by a small group of nobles who rule us. Kafka critiques the idea that law is respected simply because it is the law. Before we can analyze Kafka's message, we must determine one thing: what is law? Using the works of Abel and Turk, explain how the law is designed to regulate social conduct. BE DETAILED PLEASE

Kafka's parable link: https://www.kafka-online.info/before-the-law.html

Summary of Turk:

The effort to develop an adequate conception of law must begin by recognizing the centrality of diversity and conflict in social life wherever law?provisionally understood as the process of formally articulating normative expectations?is discernible. As law becomes available, it becomes relevant as a contingency which must be met. It then becomes necessary to act so as to gain or increase control of legal resources, if only to neutralize them as weaponry an opponent might employ. Legal concepts and thought-ways develop in the course of pragmatic efforts by men to comprehend problems of social interaction so as to manage them?including the problematics of dominating the lives of other people. People's life chances are affected just as decisively by how much their economic power is enhanced or eroded by law. Legal decisions may prematurely signal the end of conflicts without actually resolving them.

A part of Abel's passage is attached

Lawyers and legal theorists tend to take legislation as a given, an exogenous and arbitrary datum, which courts must then process. (By contrast, legal theorists are deeply concerned with how courts make and apply rules.) Social scientists seek to understand the forces that createrules, perpetuate them, and foster change. They are interested in all rule-making institutions: legislative, administrative, and judicial. Three bodies of theory have emerged from this effort. The first, and most commonly deployed, is liberal pluralism or interest group poliu'cs. Rules are one of the prizes in the political arena; interested parties organize and enter temporary alliances to secure them. Among the innumerable examples of such competition we might include contemporary discussions about a national healiti care program (among providers, insurers, consumers, employers, and unions), environmental controversies, international trade policy, and debates over how to raise taxes (progressivity, capital gains, corporate, estate and property} and spend them (benets, than price supports, military bases, government contracts). Sociologists have adapted iis approach to advance a second theory: the object of competition is not only material gain but also respect and social status; the medium is symbols, values, and ethical positions. Again it is easy to cite instances