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Social Control - Coggle Diagram
Social Control
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Types of social control
Formal control
When the codified, systematic, and other formal mechanism of control is used, it is known as formal social control.
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Informal control
They include smiles, making faces, body language frowns, criticism, ridicule, laughter etc.
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It is personal, unofficial and uncodified.
There are various agencies of informal social control e.g. family, religion, kinship, etc.
Conflict theory
Social control is a mechanism to impose the social control of dominant social classes on the rest of society
Stability would be seen as the writ of one section over the other. Likewise law would be seen as the formal writ of the powerful and their interests on society
It refers to the various means used by a society to bring its recalcitrant or unruly members back into line.
Social control refers to the social process, techniques and strategies by which the behaviours of individual or a group are regulated