What Is Boundary Maintain

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When describing boundary maintain, Erikson says ‘one is saying that it controls the fluctuation of its consistent parts so that the whole retains a limited range of activity, a given pattern of constancy and stability, within the larger environments”. Indicating that, boundary maintain helps us(society) understand the social norms communities tends to have, due to society having many sort of cultures, beliefs and different social class, which many people disagree or agree on. Boundaries are maintained by the way the society response to a deviant situations or a person, in which both reaction end with either in a positive or a negative result. Boundaries is important in social group because without it the world would be a complete chaos, which

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