「社会統制」概念の変遷と非法的統制 (課題研究 社会統制と個人)

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In the origins of sociology, the concept of "social control" was a "key that unlocks many doors" (E.A. Ross); that is, it served as a central concept for analyzing total societies. Social control was basically defined as encompassing all those social practices and arrangements that established social order and induced "spontaneous" conformity among members of the society without using any powers or coercion. Social control is, rather, the obverse of coercive control. But the once dominant conception of social control abovementioned has gradually been replaced by the idea that the patterns of social control are contingent on social structures. This paper pays special attention to the social control achieved by informal negotiation which is complementary and simultaneously destructive to the modern legalistic social control.