Kevin Young Chapter 6 Flashcards
What is social control?
An attempt to bring about conformity in the behavior of the members of society- can give rise to noncomformity and deviance.
What are internal social controls?
Reside within individuals, come in the form of personality, empathy, restraint, or personal commitment to some standard or behaviour.
What are external social controls?
Found outside the individual and reflect the norms and expectations of the wider culture and society.
What are formal social controls?
Systems of rules and regulations, such as those found in institutions. Codified entities that provide a basic structure for appropriate behaviour.
What are informal controls?
Emerge from interpersonal settings and face-to face interactions.
What are some British anti-hooligan techniques used at football games?
Introduced designated safety officers, trained spotters, publishing wanted photos of hooligans, CCTV cameras, use of cellphones, hooligan hotlines, fines.
What are some better, more sociologically inclined suggestions for how to end hooliganism?
More efficient and careful ticket distribution, comprehensive travel schedules to allow stewards to supervise groups of travelling fans, fan membership schemes, adequate segregation of fans by host clubs, establishment of stronger community links with soccer fans.
How is SRV socially controlled at the individual level?
Manifested in areas such as conscience, empathy, and self-restraint, filled with programmes and regulations that players and coaches must comply with. Also includes sanctions imposed on individuals in sport.
What is the notion of a panopticon?
Metaphorically wrefers to the ways which groups wielding power can monitor subjects who exist in a state of permanent visibility or perceived permanent visability (surveillance and control).
What is the idea of governmentality?
Refers to the varying and complex styles of governance in different communities, seen in sport in the different forms of intervention and controlling bodies.
What is the idea of surveillance?
Punishment is no longer confined to the formal criminal system and operates at the informal level, people have a heightened sense of self awareness or paranoia at being caught.
What is Garlands cultures of control?
Focuses on the change in Western penal structures away from rehabilitation and towards punitive sanctions. Looking at the cause of a crime rather than an effect.
What are ideologies of prolympism?
The increase in professionalisation and commercialisation in olympic and amateur sports, increasing the emphasis on the outcome rather than play, and the paternalistic notion that athletes would not be as committed to the outcome without some version of social control.
What is civilising according to Elias?
A process whereby greater restraint is exercised by the individual over habitual and impulsive acts such as violence. Tied to how individuals become dependent on one another.
