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What are the agencies of social control? Which is the most effective one in a democratic society?

  • UPSC 1985
  • Systems of Kinship

Agencies of social control are the institutions and groups through which a society teaches, rewards and enforces its norms. Since Edward A. Ross (Social Control, 1901), sociologists have distinguished informal agencies rooted in primary groups from formal agencies of the state. Which agency works best depends on the society: a democracy, which rests on consent,…

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