... youth workers are agents of social change or agents of social control and I will be referring to the three reports to back up my decision. The debate about whether youth workers are agents of social change or social control is a very complex one. But first, what is social change and social control? Social control is the processes of informal social control and formal social control of deviant behaviour which falls beyond the bounds set by social norms. Social control is present in all societies, if only in the control mechanisms used to prevent its establishment in anarchic situations. (www.wikipedia.org) Formal social control can be set through various laws, rules and regulations. It is conducted by government and organisations using law enforcement mechanisms and other sanctions such as fines and imprisonment. Informal social control is expressed through customs and norms using informal sanctions such as criticism, disapproval, guilt and shaming. ...

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