SOCY 1004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Informal Social Control, Social Control, Cooper'S Hill Cheese-Rolling And Wake
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In all social processes - both macro (e. g. institutions) and micro (small groups and dyads) Enforced through formal and informal social control. Social control: is the sum of sanctions in society by means of which conformity to cultural guidelines is ensured. Means at which society ensures social control. Both at the level of macro and micro processes - supported by the culture in which we live. In general micro norms are consistent with certain general expectations that come from a macro level. Both sending the same message but with different types of social control. Occurs during interpersonal the law by agents of the criminal justice system. communication, among people acting on their own, in an unofficial capacity. Where we have a bureaucratic structure in which we can enforce this. Ex. telling an inappropriate joke and receiving rude looks. type of social control. Both are using sanctions in society in a way to ensure cultural guidelines remain conformed.
