Examples of control in the following topics:
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- Control theory explains that societal institutions without strong control of society can result in deviant behavior.
- In other words, deviant behavior occurs when external controls on behavior are weak.
- Decentralized control, or market control, is typically maintained through factors such as price, competition, or market share.
- Centralized control, such as bureaucratic control, is typically maintained through administrative or hierarchical techniques that create standards or policies.
- An example of mixed control is clan control, which contains both centralized and decentralized control.
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- Social control refers to the various means used by a society to bring its members back into line with cultural norms.
- There are two general types of social control:
- Some researchers have outlined some of the motivations underlying the formal social control system.
- rehabilitation - some argue that formal social controls should work to rehabilitate criminals, eventually turning them into productive members of society
- societal protection - finally, some argue that the motivation for formal social controls is nothing more than removing the deviant members of society from the non-deviant members
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- An example of affect control theory in practice is how people behave at funerals.
- Sociologists identify two basic forms of social control - informal control and formal control.
- Formal social control typically involves the state.
- Informal social control has the potential to have a greater impact on an individual than formal control.
- This is example of a social situation controlling an individual's emotions.
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- Formal means of social control are generally state-determined, through the creation of laws and their enforcement.
- Formal means of social control are the means of social control exercised by the government and other organizations who use law enforcement mechanisms and sanctions such as fines and imprisonment to enact social control.
- This gives the control mechanisms a measure of support from the population and voluntary compliance.
- Our understanding of formal control is enhanced by social theorist Max Weber's work on the state's use of violence.
- Explain the relationship between formal means of social control and state authority
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- As opposed to forms of internal control, like norms and values, sociologists consider sanctions a form of external control.
- Internal controls are a form of social control that we impose on ourselves.
- Sanctions are mechanisms of social control.
- As opposed to forms of internal control, like cultural norms and values, sociologists consider sanctions a form of external control.
- As with formal controls, informal controls reward or punish acceptable or unacceptable behavior, otherwise known as deviance.
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- In any case, the social values that are present in individuals are products of informal social control.
- Social control may also be enforced using formal sanctions.
- This form of control usually takes the form of government action.
- By means of social control, students are taught the boundaries of acceptable behavior.
- Discuss the use of school system and media as a means of exercising social control within a given society
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- Social control theory argues that relationships, commitments, values, and beliefs encourage conformity.
- Social control theory describes internal means of social control.
- Social control theory seeks to understand how to reduce deviance.
- Nye focused on the family unit as a source of control and specified three types of control: (1) direct control, or the use of punishments and rewards to incentivize particular behaviors; (2) indirect control, or the affectionate identification with individuals who adhere to social norms; and (3) internal control, or the manipulation of an individual's conscience or sense of guilt to encourage conformity.
- However, youth may be constrained when free from direct control by their anticipation of parental disapproval (indirect control), or through the development of a conscience, an internal constraint on behavior.
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- As with formal controls, informal controls reward or punish acceptable or unacceptable behavior.
- Informal controls are varied and differ from individual to individual, group to group, and society to society.
- The social values that are present in individuals are products of informal social control.
- As with formal controls, informal controls reward or punish acceptable or unacceptable behavior.
- Informal controls differ from individual to individual, group to group, and society to society.
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- Social conflict is the struggle for agency or power within a society to gain control of scarce resources.
- During war, one army tries to gain control over available resources in order to prevent the opposing army from gaining control.
- Resources are scarce and individuals naturally fight to gain control of them.
- The idea that those who have control will maintain control is called the Matthew Effect.
- War is the classic example of conflict: one army is attempting to maintain control of resources (land, weapons, morale) so that the other army cannot have them.
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- Marx viewed religion as a tool of social control used by the bourgeoisie to keep the proletariat content with an unequal status quo.
- From a Marxist perspective, these expectations become part of religion's ability to control society and maintain the status quo.
- Only then would this class of people be able to rise up against the bourgeoisie and gain control of the means of production, and only then would they achieve real rewards, in this life.
- He believed that it was a tool of social control used to maintain an unequal status quo, and that it should be abolished.