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Write short note: Social control.

  • UPSC 1991
  • Systems of Kinship

Social control is the set of means and processes by which a group or society secures conformity to its norms and maintains order. The term was given currency by Edward A. Ross (Social Control, 1901), who asked how order is possible among individuals with competing interests. R. M. MacIver and Charles H. Page (Society, 1949)…

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