SOC 705 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Involuntary Commitment, Corporate Crime, Regulatory Agency

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 705
• Professor: Terry Roswell

Document Summary

Social control: the methods used by members of a society to maintain order and promote predictability of behaviour. Internalization of group norms: consequence of socialization and learning rules of behaviour: control through external pressures: include both negative and positive sanctions, negative sanctions: penalties imposed on those who violate norms, positive sanctions: intended to reward conformity. Folkways: established norms of common practices such as those that specify modes of dress, etiquette, and language use. Mores: societal norms associated with intense feelings of right or wrong and definite rules of conduct that are simply not to be violated. Informal controls are not exercised through official group mechanisms and there are no specially designated persons in charge of enforcement. More effective in groups and societies where relations are face to face and intimate and where the division of labour is relatively simple. Informal social control is stronger in smaller, traditional, more homogeneous communities than in larger, more modern and heterogeneous communities.