Social Control
- Created by: jesskeayy
- Created on: 26-04-17 11:08
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- Social Control
- Formal social control
- Government provide us with laws.
- Break the laws and you are sanctioned to make an example, to act as a deterrent and to enforce certain behaviours/ stigmatise others
- Government provide us with laws.
- DURKHEIM
- Some crime can be functional, as it reaffirms social solidarity as the collective ideas of right and wrong are reaffirmed
- Social control is therefore essential to prevent deviance and to keep society running smoothly
- MARXISTS argue that social control is used by capitalists to keep the working class in their place through harsh punishments and demonization
- Social control is therefore essential to prevent deviance and to keep society running smoothly
- Some crime can be functional, as it reaffirms social solidarity as the collective ideas of right and wrong are reaffirmed
- FOUCAULT
- People do not need to be locked away to feel like they're being watched and controlled by the state
- The government have commissioned so much surveillance e.g. CCTV
- The population feel as though they are always being watched and therefore regulate their behaviour as a result
- The government have commissioned so much surveillance e.g. CCTV
- People do not need to be locked away to feel like they're being watched and controlled by the state
- Informal social control
- A more subtle form of control, that can be just as powerful and affects us in our daily lives
- Breaking the 'unwritten' rules can be just as dangerous/ damaging for individuals but the sanctions/ punishments are less serious
- Formal social control
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