Definition of social control Social control
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What does social control mean?
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| social control - control exerted (actively or passively) by group action | ||
| group action action taken by a group of people | ||
| auto limitation social control achieved as a manifestation of self-will or general consent | ||
| sanction a mechanism of social control for enforcing a society's standards | ||
| population control control over the growth of population; a government program | ||
| governing, government activity, governance, government, administration the act of governing; exercising authority; "regulations for the governing of state prisons"; "he had considerable experience of government" | ||
| enforcement the act of enforcing; ensuring observance of or obedience to | ||
| domination social control by dominating | ||
| enculturation, acculturation, socialisation, socialization the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure | ||
| duty, responsibility, obligation work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons; "the duties of the job" | ||
| military control, occupation the act of occupying or taking possession of a building; "occupation of a building without a certificate of occupancy is illegal" | ||
| management, direction the act of managing something; "he was given overall management of the program"; "is the direction of the economy a function of government?" | ||
| privation, deprivation act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights" | ||
| appeasement, calming the act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of) | ||
| communisation, communization, nationalisation, nationalization the organization of a nation of the basis of communism | ||
| denationalisation, denationalization, privatisation, privatization changing something from state to private ownership or control | ||
| detribalisation, detribalization the decline or termination of tribal organization | ||
| discrimination, favoritism, favouritism unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice | ||
| patronage (politics) granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support | ||
| militarisation, militarization, mobilisation, mobilization act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency: "mobilization of the troops" | ||
| demobilisation, demobilization act of changing from a war basis to a peace basis including disbanding or discharging troops; "demobilization of factories"; "immediate demobilization of the reserves" | ||
| normalisation, normalization, standardisation, standardization the imposition of standards or regulations; "a committee was appointed to recommend terminological standardization" | ||
| penalisation, penalization, punishment, penalty the act of punishing | ||
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