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Question 1

What are internal forms of social control?

Answer 1

Control over our behaviour comes within ourselves and personalities

Question 2

What are the 3 internal forms of social control and What do they all link to?

Answer 2

Moral Conscience or Superego
Tradition and Culture
Rational Ideology
- Upbringing and Socialisation

Question 3

What is moral conscience or superego?

Answer 3

‘the morality principle’ from freud psychodynamic theory.
Makes us feel guilty, preventing further bad behaviour.
developed through socialisation- right from wrong

Question 4

What is tradition and culture?

Answer 4

The internalisation of norms, values and morals.
Learnt through socialisation into routines by family.
Religion- moral code, punishment, people and a purpose.

Question 5

What is Rational Ideology?

Answer 5

It is acting according to socialisation, rational thinking behind good behaviour.

Question 6

What are external forms of social control?

Answer 6

Society aim to conform to its expectations and to keep to its rules.

Question 7

What are the 2 forms of external controls?

Answer 7

1. Coercion
2. Fear

Question 8

What is Coercion?

Answer 8

The use of threat of force to make someone do something.
Can be physical or psychological.

Question 9

How is fear an external form of social control?

Answer 9

An offender is in fear of losing freedom, opportunities, family bonds= Social bond Theory
An offender is in fear of punishment= Deterrence.
Individual deterrence and general deterrence.