SOC 340 : Differential Social Power
Document Summary
Social control: the usa has eight or ten parallel systems of social control which makes it more repressive then we would like to think! The criminal justice system now supervises over 4 million people [1995]. The civil justice system in which private parties sue each other. The administrative justice system in which a few government agencies try to regulate some 15 million businesses; The medical control system which uses chemicals and psychology to control mostly children and women but also those behaviors labeled as "perversion : gambling, homosexuality, drug use and alcoholism. The private security system made up of security guards, private courts, private prisons and private detectives. It is larger than the cjs and is growing faster. The social welfare system monitors the behavior of some 15 million people, mostly poor women and their children. It enforces middle class values of house-keeping, shopping, child care, and sexual behavior. Additionally is designed to keep people on its roles.
