formal mechanisms of social control

Question 1

what are mechanisms of social control?
how are behaviours controlled?

Answer 1

agencies of social control can also be seen as mechanisms of social control, ways through which our behaviour is controlled.
- behaviour is controlled and reinforced by using sanctions
- these are used to positively reinforce a behaviour in order to encourage it or to negatively reinforce a behaviour to discourage it

Question 2

what are formal mechanisms of social control?

Answer 2

police, courts, criminal justice system, government, military

Question 3

what do formal mechanisms of social control do?

Answer 3

they pass enforcements of the law, these institutions DIRECTLY control behaviour
formal social control is explicit and OBVIOUS

Question 4

how can workplace and military be seen as formal social control?

Answer 4

in the UK it’s rare the military is used to control citizens
- workplace can be seen as form of formal control in terms of codes and conducts

Question 5

examples of sanctions used by formal mechanisms of control?

Answer 5

examples include warning from the police, sentences from court, dissemal from work

Question 6

example of formal mechanisms of control

Answer 6

the repressive state apparatus (ISA), it’s compromised of the government, armed forces, police + criminal justice system