2.1 - Forms of social control Flashcards
What does social control involve?
What are the 2 forms?
persuading, compelling or encouraging members of society to conform to rules of.
Internal and and external.
What is internal social control?
process of regulating your own/individual behaviour.
Comes from within. Our minds and thoughts that control our behaviour that are influenced by numerous factors.
Internal control:
What is rational ideology?
example?
Humans grow, develop a conscience - then develop feelings go guilt, anxiety/worry which is what we feel when we do wrong. So we follow rules so we don’t feel like this.
Our conscience socially controls us. e.g stealing a pen from school would make us feel guilt - give it back or not do it again.
Internal control:
Tradition?
example?
Learn value, norms, customs and traditions through socialisation.
These regulate our behaviour as part of learning them is attached to the importance of following them.
This importance is then internalised - still follow.
e.g - religious upbringing - internalise traditions like not eating red meat on a Good Friday.
Internal control:
Internalisation of social rules and morality?
Examples?
Constantly working out whats right and wrong.
Encounter through observation we internalise.
younger - observe patterns.
older - peers, media which all influences our rules and morality.
Constantly regulate and controls behaviour.
E.g - learn from media that queue jumping unacceptable - regulates our behaviour to make wait in line.
External control:
What is it defined as?
environmental or outside factors that persuade or compel members of society to conform to the rules.
used by people in positions of power to enforce others to conform.
External control:
What are the 2 types?
coercion and fear of punishment
External control:
What may coercion be?
whats a boycott?
How does prison use it?
physical or non-violent.
physical - bodily injury, imprisonment or death penalty (some countries).
non violent - strike, boycott and non cooperation. e.g strike for better pay.
boycott - withholding of a social/economic interaction with others to express disapproval and to force acceptance of demands.
Prisons use coercion and threat of loss of liberty.
seen in suspended sentence with continued threat of custody for future breaking of law.
External control:
What is individual deterrence?
Deter set individual from offending or reoffending.
Threat from society.
e.g - suspended sentence or conditional discharge where there are other more serious consequences for further offending.
External control:
What is general deterrence?
Deter society in general.
Others see the potential consequence when ones being punished. deterred from doing same.
make an example of one, deter rest of society.
Control Theory:
What does it try to explain?
What does it support?
Try to explain why people do not commit crimes. Support the view that people require nurturing in order to develop attachment or bonds in producing internal controls like a conscience.
Control theory:
Crime is the result of what?
Result of insufficient attachment and commitment to others. Do not commit crime as factors that control their impulse.
Control theory:
Walter reckless?
Whats the 2 versions?
containment.
Can resist crime due to inner and outer containment.
inner - upbringing and influence of family.
outer - influence of social groups including laws of society.
combination of internal psychological containments and external social containments prevents crime.
Control theory:
Travis hirschi - what did he believe ?
what are the bonds?
what prevents people from committing crime?
People must form social bonds to prevent crime. 4 Bonds- namely attachment, commitment, involvement and belief.
positive attachment to parents,s cool important to promote pro social behaviour.
Commitment to accomplishing future positive goals was needed. some social activity or belonging to a community is needed to prevent crime.
need a belief in society values like honesty and believing crime is wrong.
