AC 2.1 - EXPLAIN FORMS OF SOCIAL CONTROL🤍

Question 1

What is Social Control?

Answer 1

• Social control is the means by which order is kept within society.
• Or by Sociologist Karl Mannheim as ‘the sum of those methods by which a society tries to influence human behavior to maintain a given order.

Question 2

Forms of Social Control

Answer 2

The processes used to achieve social control can be broken into three:

Question 3

Internal Forms of Social Control

Answer 3

• Internal forms of social control come from within ourselves.
• Internal social control is produced through the lifelong process of socialization (with parents, teachers, peers etc) that each person experiences. This is seen as the most effective form of social control.
• Generally, there are 3 forms of Internal Social Control.