Forms Of Social Control

Question 1

Name 3 internal forms of social control

Answer 1

Moral conscience, Tradition/culture, Internalisation of social rules and morality

Question 2

Name 3 external forms of social control

Answer 2

Agencies, criminal justice system (CPS), Fear of punishment

Question 3

Define the 3 types of ego

Answer 3

Superego - designed to tell us what is right and what is wrong
Id- Pleasure orientated and instinctive drive
Ego - Rationality, balances the conflict in the id and superego

Question 4

Name 4 parts of the criminal justice system

Answer 4

Police, CPS, Judges/magistrates, Prison service

Question 5

Define social control

Answer 5

Where people within a society do as they are instructed and do not cause any problems. Society achieves this through external and internal forms of social control

Question 6

Give an example of social control

Answer 6

It can be a problem If a bus driver takes a different route than the one that was given to him to drop passengers off at their destination

Question 7

Name the two control theories

Answer 7

Attachment and Commitment

Question 8

Define the attachment theory

Answer 8

The more attached we are to others, the more their opinion of us matters, therefore we are more likely to respect their norms and values and the less likely we are to break them

Question 9

Define the commitment theory

Answer 9

The more we are committed to a conventional lifestyle, the more we risk losing by getting into a criminal lifestyle, therefore we are more likely to conform