ABSTRACT
A control that we have any right to call social has behind it practically the whole weight of society. But still this control often wells up and spreads out from certain centres which we might term the radiant points of social control. That frequently these checks and stimuli are managed by a rather small knot of persons should not for a moment lead the reader to confuse social control with class control. Totally different from class control in origin is the power of a minority to direct social control. Each category of people in society has its own point of view, and consequently its own way of envisaging the problems of conduct. The absence of prestige and the faith of each man in himself give weight to the individual and reduce social control to a minimum. Social control takes the tinge of the source from which it springs.
