Formal Social Control

• What is formal social control?

  The regulation of behaviour based on written down rules
• What is the government and what does it do?

  • Responsible for establishing laws and punishments which control and regulate citizens
  • To protect law abiding citizens and maintain social order
• What is the law/legal system and what does it do?

  Uses formal social control through specific laws which citizens are expected to conform to
• What are the courts and what do they do?

  They exercise social control by punishing deviant or illegal behaviour
• Who are the police and what do they do?

  • Body of officers representing the authority of government
  • Responsible for maintaining public order and safety, enforcing the law and preventing, detecting and investigating animal activities
• Who are the military and what do they do?

  • Armed forces - a heavily, armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare
  • Authorized and maintained by state
• MAX WEBER - Physical Force: What does Max Weber describe about the state?

  Any organization that succeeds in holding the exclusive right to use, threaten or authorize physical force against residents of it's territory
• MAX WEBER - Physical Force: State the quote that Weber said about the government

  "only human institution which lays claim to the monopoly on the legitimated use of physical force"
• MAX WEBER - Physical Force: What could the physical force include?

  • Physical violence
  • Imprisonment
• MAX WEBER - Physical Force: How can the physical force be carried out?

  By the agents of social control:

  • Attachment
  • Commitment
  • Involvement
  • Beliefs
• What is the Education System?

  Institutions of state and independent schools and colleges in the UK
• What are the common mechanisms of formal social control?

  • Detentions
  • Letters home to parents / guardians
  • Formal disciplinary procedures
  • Internal exclusion
  • Suspension
  • Expulsion
• What is the workplace?

  Where people carry out their occupational roles
• What is formal socialisation?

  • The explicitly stated, often written, down rules of the work place
  • Includes learning the code of conduct, job contracts and positive sanctions
• What is religion?

  People's theological, spiritual and / or moral beliefs
• State the 10 Commandments

  1. I am The Lord, thy God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image
  2. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain
  3. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy
  4. Honour thy father and thy mother
  5. Thou shalt not murder
  6. Thou shalt not commit adultery
  7. Thou shalt not steal
  8. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour
  9. Thou shalt not covet (your neighbour's wife)
  10. Thou shalt not covet (your neighbour's house, slaves, animals, or anything else
• State the 5 Pillars of Islam

  1. Belief in God (shahada)
  2. Prayer (salat)
  3. Charity (zakat)
  4. Fasting (sawm)
  5. Pilgrimage (hajj)