Social Control Flashcards
What are the processes of social control?
May be formal, through Insitutions like law or school rules or may be informal through peer group pressure. Personal embarrassment at doing something wrong or pressure of public opinions
What are sanctions?
The rewards and punishments by which social control is achieved and conformity to norms and values enforced
What are posture sanctions?
Rewards of various kinds
What’s negative sanctions?
Various types of punishment
What does the type of sanction Depend on?
The seriousness of the norm
What may a postive sanction involve?
May range from gifts of sweets or money from parents to children to merits at school
What does a negotiate sanction range from?
Feeling a bit embarrassed to being gossiped about to being fined or imprisoned
What is deviance ?
The failure to conform to social norms
What is social control
The term given to the various methods used to persuade or force individuals to conform to the dominant social norms and values of a society and prevent deviance
