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In this article, the terms used are discussed. This first is a survey requiring some significant theoretical approaches to the explanation of social control, the normative ideas of social integration, the dialectic of inclusion and exclusion or inclusion and exclusion as well as the social role of helping professions in which the social work – in relation to pedagogy, psychology, law, or medicine –has an increasingly important position. Social control in this article simply is not as a repressive instrument, which can lead to stigmatization and social exclusion, but also as a socially critical approach to the analysis of the functions of social institutions.