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social control

noun

  1. Sociology. the enforcement of conformity by society upon its members, either by law or by social pressure.
  2. the influence of any element in social life working to maintain the pattern of such life.


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One section focused on the chilling effects of any institution that pays close attention, in routine and systematic ways, to individuals, thereby becoming a means of social control.

They sought to use ideas concerning automobiles and safety to reassert social control by marking women’s mobility as problematic, immoral and even criminal.

He wants to build an all-seeing digital system of social control, patrolled by precog algorithms that identify potential dissenters in real time.

Because it is, as Spade and Wilse say, a “tool of social control used by governments to regulate sexuality and family formation.”

The literature on the taming of animals, the education of juveniles and adults, and on social control belongs in this field.

Social control has been studied, but, in the wide extension that sociology has given to the term, it has not been defined.

Herbert Spencer, in his chapter on "Ceremonial Government," has defined social control from this more fundamental point of view.

How does social control in human society differ from that in animal society?

How do you distinguish between public opinion, advertising, and propaganda as means and forms of social control?

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