THE PROBLEM OF THE STATUS OF THE STATUS QUO: SOME COMMENTS

Warren Samuels

A chapter in A Research Annual, 2004, pp 235-256 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: One important discussion comes under Knight’s heading of “Social Control.” To appreciate his argument, one has to understand that Knight’s social theory is developed within a tension between: (1) his knowledge that social control is both inevitable and necessary; and (2) his correlative desire for individual autonomy. Onecouldadd to that a hatred of social control, some of whichisrelevant. But what Knight dislikes is, first, selective elements of existing social control and, second, change of social control, e.g. change of the law by law,except forthose changes of the law that remove the selective elements he dislikes; Knight is not opposed to all change of social control. In any event, the problem of social control is also for Knight (as it was for Vilfredo Pareto) the problems of social change and of the status of the status quo as well as of hierarchy.

Date: 2004
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