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SOCIAL CONTROL I YEAR BATCH 2022 DATE OF PRESENTATION: 3/06/2024 SUBJECT: SOCIOLOGY
MEANING OF SOCIAL CONTROL • Society, in order to exist and progress, has to exercise a certain control over its members • Any marked deviation from the established ways - a threat to its welfare. Such control has been termed ‘social control’ by sociologists.
DEFINITION: • Mannheim defines social control as ‘the sum of those methods by which a society tries to influence human’s behaviour to maintain a given order’. • According to Ogburn and Nimkoff , ‘the patterns of pressure which a society exerts to maintain order and established rules’ are social control. • E. A. Ross, refers it as ‘system of devices whereby society brings its members into conformity with the accepted standards of behaviour’. • According MacIver, social control is ‘the way in which entire social order coheres and maintains itself—how it operates as a whole, as a changing equilibrium’.
• In the definition of social control, the following three things are to be noted: • 1. Social control is an influence: Th e infl uence may be exerted through public opinion, coercion, social suggestion, religion, appeal to reason, or any other method. • 2. The influence is exercised by society: It means that a group is better able to exercise influence over the individual than a single individual. • This group may be the family, the church, the state, the club, the school, the trade union, etc. • The effectiveness of influence, however, depends on variable factors. Sometimes, the family may exercise more effective infl uence than the state, or sometimes it may be vice versa. • Similarly, the influence of the club may be more effective than