Three Agents Of Social Control

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The three agents of social control are Religion, Education and Media. Agents of control are external forces that determines the right, the wrong, and how to do something. Family is one of the major parts of agents of control because families tend to push down their cultural and family values on a child since childhood. Those values come from society's expectation of what is right and what is wrong and how to do things. Religion is a major agent of control because it tells people how to follow it properly, what is the right way to practice it and erc. It controls everything from how to a person communicates to who they communicate with. It is a guideline on how to live the right way following with proposing punishments for those failing to

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