Saturday, October 20, 2012
What do you know about social control ?
Social control is controlling the Norms, which is used in every aspect of our lives in school, at work, in anything thing we do in life we use social control . Without social control there would be a lot of confusion, violence and so many obstacles. Social control helps us organize our society, it shapes the way we live . I didn't really pay attention to social control what social control really meant until I read more about in the passages giving to us . Some example of social control is traffic lights and speed limits they control how fast we drive and we drive, also drinking age restrictions "you have to be 21 before you can drink liquor" religious organizations some religion you have to be a certain age before you can get married another social control can be arrange marriage . There's also social structure . Social control is the way that we structure our society sometimes without even thinking about it because its the way it was always done. Examples from the textbook is like the way we already know the first day of class we're suppose to sit down in the sits facing the front and the way we Stand in the elevator, we don't stand facing the people in the elevator, we face the door . There's no rule saying we must face the door but because we know the structure of the classroom and the elevator so we did want seem to us appropriate. There are two level of social structure which are "Meso level social structure and Macro level social structure . Meso level is formal rules or job description example agreement on sharing office space or among family members about chores . Macro level social structure focuses more on social structure, social problems, and their interrelationships. For example the effects of industrialization on older people's status, or how gender and income affect older people's well being. Social control and social structure helps us shape our society
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Ogunsanya, You used a lot of good details in your text. You using so much good details, I realized how much social control takes place in my life. When you said "facing the front and the way we Stand in the elevator, we don't stand facing the people in the elevator, we face the door', i thought about the experiment that Professor Applewhite told us to try; which was to go into an elevator and not face the door and see what happens, I thought you should give it a try its pretty funny; I tried it.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. Social control is quite essential to help us organize our society without any problems. I really enjoyed reading your posting.
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