Social control
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- Structuralism)-- Thought and discourse as reality? Can we derive intentions from the consequences of behavior? Is a society without social control possible? Central Ideas of Structuralism Social control is problematic: Not natural, but a product of social forces, group interests.
- (Marx, 1988) The surveillance societys more omniscient and omnipresent technical social control is seen in a broad variety of rule enforcement contexts beyond public policing or prisons.
- Characteristics of Formal Social Control Formal social control is exercised by institutions that (ostensibly) follow rules and procedures to control their members.
- Key to understanding a culture's system of social control is understanding the social norms upon which it is based.
- But: A great deal of social control is coercive and repressive; it relies on punishment and force.
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