AC 2.1 Flashcards
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What does social control involve
persuading people to conform to society’s norms, laws and expectations. Society has various ways of achieving social control over its members behaviors.
What is Internal Social Control
These are controls over our behavior which comes from within ourselves, from our personality or our values. They lead us to conform to the rules and norms of society and the groups that we belong to.
What theory links to Internal Social Control
Freud phsychoanalysis
What does Freud suggest
According to Freud’s theory we conform to society’s expectations and obey its rules because our superego tells us to do so. Our Superego tells us what is right and wrong and inflicts guilt feeling on us if we fail to do as it urges. Our Superego develops through early socialization within the family. Its function is to restrain the selfish ‘animal’ urges of the id. If we acted upon these urges, they would often lead to anti-social behavior and criminal behavior. The superego allows us to exercise self- control and behave in ways that are deemed socially acceptable.
What links to Internal Social Control
Culture
Internalization of social rules and morality
Rational ideology
How does Culture link to internal social control
The culture that we belong to also becomes a part of us through socialization. We learn to accept its norms, values and traditions as a part of our identity. If we conform to the traditions of the culture, then it confirms one’s identity but also confirms that we are a part of a particular community.
How does internalization of social rules and morality link to internal social control
Both our super ego and traditions become a part of our personality even though they both start as something on the outside e.g. our parents, rules and values in the case of our superego or those of our culture or social group in the case of traditions.
In both cases we internalize these rules through socialization either through our parents or through a larger social group e.g. school, institutions or religion. The social rules that we learn become a part of our own moral code.
How does rational ideology link to internal social control
describes the fact that we internalize social rules and use them to tell us what is right and what is wrong, this allows us to keep within the law and not break any rules.
How does society perform External social control
By Using Agencies of Social Control
What are some examples of External Social Control Agencies
Family
The Education system
Social groups
What theory does external social control echo
Skinners Operant Learning theory
