AC2.1 (internal/external forms of social control)

Question 1

What makes people conform?

Answer 1

social control, the enforcement of conformity by society by laws or social pressures.

Question 2

What are the key factors in internal forms of social control?

Answer 2

Moral conscience, tradition and internalization of social rules and morality

Question 3

Explain moral conscience in internal forms.

Answer 3

-psychodynamic theory
-ID is unconscious impulses responsible for criminal behaviour
-superego punishes ID by feeling guilty

Question 4

Explain tradition in internal forms

Answer 4

-traditions & customs ensure you conform to rules
-you accept culture through socialisation
-to be accepted into a culture you must conform to their rules
-e.g. Jewish people don’t eat pork

Question 5

Explain internalisation of social rules and morality

Answer 5

-we internalise society’s rules, then use them to tell us what is right and wrong to stay within the law
-done through socialisation
-links to right realism RCT.

Question 6

How do external agencies of control stop us from offending?

Answer 6

Coercion: use of force to achieve desired behaviour
e.g London Riots 2011, or imprisonment/death penalty
Fear of punishment: punishment acts as a deterrent.

Question 7

What is individual/general deterrence?

Answer 7

Individual: punishment imposed on offenders to deter them in future
General: seeing others being punished prevents you from doing the same
-links to functionalism & right realism