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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Role of Family in Social Control.

  • UPSC 2005
  • Systems of Kinship

Social control refers to the processes by which a society secures conformity to its norms (Edward A. Ross, Social Control, 1901). The family is the first and most pervasive agency of informal control. It shapes conduct through affection, example and sanction long before the school, the law or the state intervene.

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  • Mechanisms of control
  • The Indian family as an agency of control
  • Critical perspectives
  • Changing role
  • Conclusion

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