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Corruption vastly threatens political and administrative systems. More important is the issue of the very serious and direct bond between administrative corruption and the effectiveness and efficiency of the political systems. Therefore, controlling and removing administrative corruption have turned into the major priorities of governments and rulings systems. In this paper, the author not only offers some preparatory discussions related to the importance of fighting corruption, but also introduces the indicators of measuring administrative corruption. Also, the national and international indicators employed by national and international organizations involved are mentioned. Furthermore, the cultural factors as well as the importance of adopting a social approach for coming up with the proper indicators of corruption as a sociological paradigm are looked into. Hence, the goal of this paper is to expound the indicators presented and to prove role of social indicators in this regard and to help the preparation of inter-field indicators for measuring corruption and the trends existing. The current paper has been prepared with a mind to inter-field studies