Understanding Culture, society and Politics 1.pptx

Lesson 7 in UCSP

1. 1 Social Control

2. 2 UNIT STIMULUS Is this normal?

3. 3 How do forms of social control influence the behavior of the members of society? CENTRAL QUESTION

4. Social control refers to the certain ways that society encourages people to behave . Social Control 4

5. matching one’s behavior to what is expected of him or her by society doing what is socially acceptable Conformity 5

6. 6 In his book, Edward Alsworth Ross described social control as the basis of order and cooperation in society .

7. Institutionalized rewards and punishments implemented to prevent chaos in society. Formal Means of Social Control Internalized sense of what is right and wrong through socialization. Informal Means of Social Control Forms of Social Control 7

8. Formal Means of Social Control 8 - - Education Coercion Laws

9. What cannot be done Example: We are not allowed to cross on certain streets. Proscriptive What should be done Example: garbage segregation Prescriptive Ensuring Conformity to New Social Values 9

10. 10 War on drugs in the Philippines CONTEMPORARY EXPERIENCE

11. Informal Means of Social Control 11 One develops a sense of what is right and wrong from internalizing the norms and values through socialization.

12. Informal Means of Social Control 12 Components of informal means of social control: social values sanctions rewards and punishments

13. 13 What makes the informal means of social control so effective? sympathy sociability sense of justice resentment

14. 14 What’s Stopping You? Activities or Acts Component of the Informal Means of Social Control Type of Deviant Behavior Source of Deviant Behavior to have many tattoos Sanction: concerned that my parents will disapprove of me for looking untidy afraid of being ridiculed and criticized by people around me

15. What’s Stopping You? 15 What do social controls make us do? Which type of social control is more effective in regulating the actions of the members of society? When is conforming to societal control beneficial and when is it not?

16. Stoplight STOP START CONTINUE 16