LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Biopower, Addiction, Involuntary Commitment
19 Apr 2016
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Refers to methods used by members of a society to maintain order and to promote predictability of. Law is one form of social control. There are many more, using penalty and reward, normalization and regulation behaviours. Informal social control: internalization of group norms: i. e. dress code, incest (18yrs old): characteristic of smaller community, face-to-face, no official group mechanism, or person in charge. Formal social control: external pressures: the use of universal sanctions, systems of standardization, evaluations, professionalization, securing conformity via reinforcement and punishment in a systematic and visible way (i. e. the. Military) specify the sanction imposed for violations (p. 139) Laws enacted by legislators and modified by the court decisions, define criminal behaviours and. In 2000 1/10 living in canada had a criminal records (17 percent of men and 4 percent of women) Legalization: the process by which norms move from the social to the legal level its latest stage of.
