social control key terms

• Social control


  Process whereby society tries to ensure its members keep

  to the laws, norms, values of that society and the

  approved ways of behaving
• Agents of social control


  Institutions that help to keep individuals in order
• Informal social control


  These are sanctions that people use in everyday life to

  control others and encourage them to follow social norms
• Formal social control


  Power that is given to individuals and groups allowing

  them to use sanctions to keep social control
• Conformity


  When people behave as they are expected to by social norms