Social Control

Question 1

INFORMAL SOCIAL CONTROL

Answer 1

Based on the approval or disapproval of the people around us.

We are rewarded and sanctioned based on our behaviour and these control our behaviour much more subtly

Some of these sanctions are:

• being excluded from social groups
• pushed out of a religion
• disappointed reactions
• being criticised by the media

Question 2

FORMAL SOCIAL CONTROL

Answer 2

Our behaviour is controlled by organisations that enforced order

Groups that enforce formal social control:

• police
• courts
• military
• courts
• government
• justice system

We get formal sanctions for behaviour that is breaking laws or rules, which can stay on record. these are explicit and obvious

Some sanctions are: sentences, exclusions, fines or warnings from the police

Question 3

PRIMARY SOCIALISATION

Answer 3

What you learn in the first 5 years of your life.

Taught through parents and close family.

Isabel the chicken girl.

Process of learning:

• Process of trial and error
• rewards and sanctions
• imitation

Question 4

SECONDARY SOCIALISATION

Answer 4

The continuation of primary socialisation.

Learn the norms and values of society

When you learn from: peers, teachers, friends, authority, work place, religion, media

Question 5

NATURE

Answer 5

Nature is the internal factors that forms how we are as a person.

These internal factors are influence by genetic inheritance and others are biological factors that we often have no control over- things that come naturally to us.

TWIN STUDY- two identical twins had been separated at birth and raised separately. When they were reunited as adults, they both had striking similarities such as: behaviour, likes, dislikes and personalities.

This is why some would argue nature is more important as it happens naturally.

Question 6

NURTURE

Answer 6

Nurture is when we as people get taught how to behave and we become who we are from what we have learnt which effects mannerisms, personality, norms and values.

We can learn from society, those around us and environmental factors that are not innate to us.

ISABEL THE CHICKEN GIRL- when Isabel was young it was found her mother left her in with the chicken coop for hours while her mother worked. She was not toilet trained, she could not speak and the only way she expressed her emotion was through beating her arms and drumming her feet, imitating the behaviour.

This shows that who we are around effects the way we are as we imitate and learn through others.