Punishment & Social Control

Cards (8)

  • Social Control
    the ways in which a social system attempts to regulate people's behaviour, thoughts, feelings and appearance
    - theeffects of a social systemNOTnecessarilyits purposeaccording to its own self-concept
  • Internal Social Control
    - achieved via socialization
    - shapes people's attitudes to regard deviant behaviour as undesirable'
    - source of conformity to social expectation is INTERNAL to the social actor (what they believe is right or wrong)
    Ex:when a camera is pointed at you (panopticon) because you never know when your manger is watching
  • External Social Control
    - regulates behaviour by imposing punishments and offering rewards
    - source of conformity to social expectation is EXTERNAL to the social actor
    Ex:studying and grades
    Ex:when your manager comes into the store to watch you work
  • Panopticism
    a form of social control that has to do with how people in society react to being subjected tosurveillance
  • Michele Foucault in 1975

    a social theorist who introduced the concept of panopticism or the "logic of panopticism"
  • Panopticon (a type of internal social control)

    the possibility of being watched is constant because you never know whether you're being watched at any given moment
    Ex:the structure of the prison (is called a...)
  • Internalization of the Gaze
    people "internalize" the gaze of the panoptic observer, subjecting themselves to surveillance and the panoptic order
    - gaze is present in one's subjectivity (mind) even when one is not subjected to surveillance (constantly thinking about filming something)
  • Biopolitics
    mechanisms of surveillance that go underneath the behaviour (at the level of the biological organism