DOSE 1.0 Introduction Rules are made to define the norms of social behavior that are necessary to ensure social cohesion.
Rules help in taking decisions without having to refer again and again to higher authorities.
Where there are rules there will be infringement and where there is infringement there has to be punishment. Punishment is an oft debated, much discussed topic and yet we have little understanding of the nature of this control which a person in authority exercises over another person. The main theme of this article is to analyze the subject of Punishment in the context of a school. Freud maintains that the conscience is the agency set up within the mind by civilization to obtain mastery over the individual s dangerous desires like a garrison in a conquered city. The sense of guilt brought forth by the conscience with respect to the actions of the individual expresses itself as a need for punishment.