2.1 Flashcards
What are internal forms of social control?
These controls on our behaviour come from within ourselves.
Freud Link?
id, ego and superego
- the superego tells us what is right and wrong and creates feeling of guilt
What does rational ideology mean?
the term of which internalise social rules and tells us what is right and wrong, this helps us law abiding.
External forms of social control?
these are organisations and institutions that impose rules on us, they make us behave a certain way.
- police, stop, search, arrest, detain and question
suspects.
- fear of punishment
- coercion, involves the use of threat or force to make
someone do or stop doing something. sending
someone to prison.
Hirschi: bonds of attachment
Attachment- the more attached to others the more we care about their opinions, less likely to break rules.
Commitment- how committed we are to conventional goals such as succeeding in education.
Involvement- the more involved we are in everyday life like sport
Belief- if we have been socialized to believe it is right to obey the law.