AC2.1

Question 1

What are values?

Answer 1

General principles or guidelines on how we should live our lives, they tell us what is right and what is wrong, good and bad

Question 2

What are norms?

Answer 2

Specific rules or socially accepted standards that govern people’s behaviour

Question 3

What are moral codes?

Answer 3

Often used to describe a basic set of rules, values and principles held by an individual group, organisation or society as a whole

Question 4

Where do internal forms of social control come from?

Answer 4

Our personalities and our values, they can also be considered to be self control

Question 5

What does Freud say?

Answer 5

That we conform to society’s expectations and obey its rules because our superego tells us to.

Question 6

What is rational ideology?

Answer 6

The term used to describe the way in which we internalise social rules and use them to tell us what is right and wrong

Question 7

How does tradition and culture help achieve social control?

Answer 7

Thr culture in which we belong also becomes part of us through socialisation, we come to accept its norms, values and traditions as part of our identity.