Social Control

• What are the types of social control

  .physical violence

  .social acceptance

  .socialisation

  .economic pressure
• How does economic pressures act as a social control

  .people may conform as it’s in their economic interest to do so

  Workers who misbehave may be sacked and have welfare benefits withdrawn and can’t manage to without work due to fear of loss of money
• How does Physical Violence act as a social control

  .threat of physical force or imprisonment,
• How does socialisation act as a type of control

  .society's rules through socialisation by parents ,schools and media

  .we internalise cultural expectations and become part of own code of values

  .reduces the likelihood that we will wish to break rules
• How is social acceptance a form of social control

  .desire to be accepted by others that keeps us in line

  .fear of ridicule and the dread of exclusion that stops people doing certain things