mains in common usage, systematic attention to the field has long since withered away, a development which we attribute primarily to inadequate delimitations of the field. Accordingly, this paper suggests a distinctive subject matter for social control in the hope that a reformulation will lend new life to this sociological specialty. The felt necessity for a reformulation is not original with us. Hollingshead made a similar plea in 1941,1 when he contended that social control