internal and external social control
- Created by: rawr_quinn
- Created on: 15-03-23 13:43
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- social control
- internal forms of social control
- rational ideology
- an idea or belief to achieve social control
- conscience with feelings of guilt anxiety or worry from within guides you to reach a solution or follow rules and laws
- tradition
- may be traditions norms and customs that ensure you conform to the rules
- sometimes religion or culture or purely your upbringing ensures you do not break the law
- internalisation of social rules and morality
- internalisation of social rules and morality is working out what is the right thing to do and therefor knowing what is right and wrong based upon social values
- rational ideology
- external forms of social control
- most obvious and visible form
- excerised by people and organisations specifically empowered to enforce conformity of societies laws
- police officers, judges, prisons most evident agents
- coercion
- physical coercion may take form of bodily injury imprisonment and in some countires death penalty
- non violent coercion consists of strikes boycotts and non-cooperation
- fear of punishment
- use of punishment as a threat to stop people from offending is called deterrence
- individual deterrence is punishment imposed on offenders in order to deter them from committing further crimes
- general deterrence is fear of punishment that prevents others from committing similar crimes e.g. someone getting a lengthy sentence
- most obvious and visible form
- internal forms of social control
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