Forms of Social control

Question 1

What is social control?

Answer 1

The need for people to behave in ways which we expect them to and force people to conform to social norms.

Question 2

What are 3 types of internal social control?

Answer 2

Moral conscience, Tradition and culture, and internalisation of social rules and morality

Question 3

What does the Super Ego do?

Answer 3

Makes us feel guilty
Develops through early socialisation
Allows us to exercise self control

Question 4

How does tradition and culture provide internal control?

Answer 4

Has become part of identity, provides us with a set of cultured rules, gives us a sense of belonging to a community

Question 5

How does internalisation of social rules and morality provide social control?

Answer 5

Shaped by our parents rules and expectations which eventually become part of us which is why we follow social norms and behaviours
Rational ideology - we internalise social rules and use them to tell what is right and wrong

Question 6

What are the 4 formal agents of social control?

Answer 6

Police, CPS, Judges and Magistrates, Prison Service

Question 7

What are the 3 informal agents of social control?

Answer 7

Family, Peers, Education System