Social Control Flashcards
1
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Social control
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Ways through our behaviour is controlled
2
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Formal mechanisms of social control
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Explicit and obvious. Formal agencies are the governments,the police, the criminal justice system and the courts. A control would be warnings from the police
3
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Informal mechanisms of control
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These control our behaviour more subtly it is less obvious. An example would be socially excluding a person from a peer group
