Social control in my town
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F.E. Lumley classified the means of social control into two major categories: those based upon force and those founded on symbols. According to him, though physical force is indispensable in social control, yet it is not merely the force that can manage the individuals. Human societies have to rely upon symbolic devices which are more effective than force.
Lumley put symbolic methods Into two classes. In the first he included means like rewards, praise, flattery, education and persuasion which are designed to direct the individual’s behaviour along certain desirable ends. In the second category he put means such as gossip, satire, criticism, ridicule, threats, name calling, propaganda, commands and punishments which aim at restraint and repression.
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