Social Control

Of group action.

Control exerted (actively or passively) by group action.

This concept's ID is @1~5833

Contains

  • administration 19 facts

    The act of governing; exercising authority; "regulations for the governing of state...

  • duty 14 facts

    The social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force; "we must instill...

  • direction 14 facts

    The act of managing something; "he was given overall management of the program"; "is the...

  • punishment 11 facts

    The act of punishing.

  • discrimination 8 facts

    Unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice.

  • enforcement 4 facts

    The act of enforcing; ensuring observance of or obedience to.

  • domination 3 facts

    Social control by dominating.

  • mobilization 3 facts

    Act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency: "mobilization...

  • privation 2 facts

    Act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation...

  • appeasement 2 facts

    The act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of).

  • socialization 2 facts

    The adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture; "the socialization...

  • standardization 2 facts

    The imposition of standards or regulations; "a committee was appointed to recommend...

  • patronage 1 facts

    (politics) granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return...

  • demobilization 1 facts

    Act of changing from a war basis to a peace basis including disbanding or discharging...

  • auto limitation 0 facts

    Social control achieved as a manifestation of self-will or general consent.

  • sanction 0 facts

    A mechanism of social control for enforcing a society's standards.

  • population control 0 facts

    Control over the growth of population; a government program.

  • occupation 0 facts

    The control of a country by military forces of a foreign power.

  • nationalization 0 facts

    Changing something from private to state ownership or control.

  • denationalization 0 facts

    Changing something from state to private ownership or control.

  • detribalization 0 facts

    The act of causing tribal people to abandon their customs and adopt urban ways of...

  • corrections 0 facts

    The social control of offenders through a system of imprisonment and rehabilitation...