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Compare the role of custom as an agency of social control in primitive and modern industrial societies.

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  • Systems of Kinship

Custom is an established, socially approved way of acting, sustained by tradition and group approval rather than by an enacted rule. William Graham Sumner (Folkways, 1906) distinguished folkways, which draw mild disapproval when broken, from mores, which are felt to be vital to group welfare. Henry Maine's movement "from status to contract" (Ancient Law, 1861)…

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