ABSTRACT
A Critique of social discipline must answer two great questions: What should society impose? How should it impose? This chapter characterizes the aims of social control. The present generation has heard much discussion of state interference, and has accepted certain canons as necessary to be observed in this interference. But no one realizes the vast control that is outside of and beyond the state, and so no one ever thinks of discussing in a scientific temper the proper limits of society's interference with the individual. It is agreed on every hand that all social control should conduce to human welfare. But this term is often translated "social welfare", and the inference is drawn that society may properly pile on requirements so long as thereby its order and security are in any way improved. Social control is one means of promoting this Social welfare.
