Social control in the adversary system

To understand the social control problem of the adversary system, we begin with what is admittedly a conceptual oversim-plification-that social organizations are based upon norms of either conflict or co-operation. The family, the university, the industrial enterprise are institutions predi-cated upon the idea of cooperation. It is believed that the more smoothly the actors within it work together, the more likely will the institution achieve its aims. For such institutions, the key problem of social con-trol is to find means for countering forces that precipitate conflict. There are, however, institutions experi-