Author Question: List five informal mechanisms of social control found in small-scale societies. What will be an ... (Read 76 times)

mynx · **on:** Jul 10, 2018

List five informal mechanisms of social control found in small-scale societies.

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Define pan-tribal mechanisms.

What will be an ideal response?

duy1981999 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 10, 2018

Answer to Question 1

They include socialization, public opinion, corporate lineages, and supernatural belief
systems, and age organizations.

Answer to Question 2

These are mechanisms such as clans, age grades, and secret societies found in tribal
societies that cut across kinship lines and integrate all the local segments of the tribe
into a larger whole.