Ideological Social Control Case Study

Social control is the way society reacts to behavior and people it considers as deviant, problematic, worrying, threatening, troublesome or undesirable in some way or another. There are three different types of social control: private, parochial, and public. The most basic form of social control is at the private level. This is also referred to as a primary form of social control. At the private level social control is carried out by family, friends, and other informal social groups that have the capacity to exercise social control through criticism, praise, ostracism, and even violence. The second form of social control is at the parochial level and is also known as secondary social control. At the parochial level social control is exercised by community organizations such as schools, churches, neighborhood groups, and businesses that often have a stake in individual behavior, but do not have the same sentimental attachment as those at the private level. Social control levied by those at the parochial level, for example, can take the form of a verbal reprimand by a neighbor or sanctions meted out by a school principal or church official. The third form of social control is exercised at the public level. At the public level social control is exercised by governmental organizations such as the police and regulatory agencies. This form of social control is often called to action when other strategies exercised by the private and parochial levels have

The media instills messages into society. They sometimes go out of the way in advertising or glorifying certain issues. Usually, a bad or detrimental message is packaged in a glorious way. Often times there is encouragement to act in ways that promote thrill and adventure. This way, media glorifies the bad aspects of people and encourages them to act in forbidden ways. The Hunger Games includes many of these aspects. For example, observe Katniss Everdeen in her journey as a tribute, a victor, and a leader. Her varying degrees of awareness, understanding, and manipulation of televised content accurately reflect how our own society responds to it as well. A focus on how much the media influences especially how to control citizens, whether it involves, body image, emotions, or in many cases violence.

Sports are extremely popular around the world and only get more popular as time goes on. Sports is on television (TV), in the news, in the newspaper, and online. It only makes sense that this is the case. A sporting event is the ultimate drama. The variability of a game is what gets people so into it. Sports can tell a story, and teach great life lessons as well as inspire people. If sports are that important to the people around the world who watch it, just think about how important sports are to the ones who actually play it and coach it. It is their passion, their persona, their life. With the media’s harsh expectations of teams today, unless a team wins a championship, they are deemed unsuccessful. Since expectations are so high,

Social Control – consists of the forces and processes that encourage conformity, including: self control, informal and formal control

The theoretical stability of social control theory rests upon the existence of four variables which are not only thought to have a correlative relationship amongst each other but are viewed as pivotal perquisites in deterring deviant behavior. These variables are attachment, commitment, involvement, and belief. Attachment refers to the obligatory connections and expectations that relate the individual to other persons in society. Through the individual's attachments to other people's expectations, norms become internalized by the individual. Commitment refers to the fear of law-breaking behavior and assumes that the organization of society is situated such that the interests of most persons of the given society would be endangered if they decide to engage in criminal and/or deviant acts. Involvement refers to the conventional activities that makes a person too busy to find time and/or the opportunity to engage in deviant behavior. As for Belief, the theory holds that a common, if not, single value system exists in society in which both he law-abiding individual as well as deviant both value. The opinions and impressions that are dependent on constant social reinforcement comprise belief. A person is more likely to conform to social norms when he believes in them. However, there is possibly a wide variability amongst the society as to how much one adheres to the belief that they should obey the norms and rules of society.

Our project topic was centered on Social Control, as discussed in Chapter 8 of the Kottak textbook. Social Control is defined as “maintaining social norms and regulating conflict” (Kottak 2013; 165). More specifically, we decided to focus on the phenomenon of “slut-shaming.” According the Oxford Dictionary Online for American English, “slut-shaming,” is defined as the “action of stigmatizing a woman for engaging in behavior judged to be promiscuous or sexually provocative.” Although Oxford singularizes women in this phenomenon, the practice of slut-shaming is inclusive to both genders. It is the stressed implication that women are more targeted that begged us to question: are women more likely to follow societal regulation in regards to their sexual acts than men? In other words, are women more likely to follow the social norms of the culture regarding their sexual activities than men? Shame and gossip are informal forms of social control that are usually practiced in small communities, which further correlates with the idea that women will follow the informal regulations put into place in order to avoid these consequences. With such ideologies in mind, we hypothesized that in American culture, men are less likely to be confined to sexually-charged social constraints than women.

The Author is trying to find out how judge’s make decisions based on policy, and seeing if there is any difference depending the on the level of the federal court. There have not been many, if any studies done on this subject to the best of the authors’ knowledge.

When it comes to political ideology, liberalism is most consistent with my personal beliefs. Liberals have a high regard for individuals living freely, being happy, and making personal choices without the government involvement (Ruth, 2016). A large believe of liberal is that government should exist for judicial, military, and protection of people. Government should be smaller in some ways and too much political power can cause greater harm than good (Murphy, 2016). Government plays a significant role in everyday life beyond judicial system control. Some of the involvement is good, others not so much.

Unless people are prevented from doing so, the social control theorist expects people to commit crimes and delinquency and unless the criminals are properly

Modern society has many ills plaguing it. Some of these ills include excess stress and unacceptable behavior, both of which can be caused by the same thing: unhealthy placement of sports in modern society. By sports being considered practically ideal in society, many child athletes suffer from pressure to win and numerous people suffer from the poor behavior exhibited by certain adult athletes.

These two beliefs make the idea of social control make sense, which is understood to be a group that imposes conformity based on what they have set to be identified as normal. To understand the elements that influence deviance and social control, an individual must understand cultural and societal norms, what is deviant behavior, and the actions that transpire to guarantee social control.

On the surface, high school sports are represented as extracurricular activities that provide positive opportunities and experiences for students involved. People often don’t think of high school sport beyond this and are either blind or choose to ignore how socioeconomic status can affect students’ opportunities to be involved in these activities. This choice to ignore how class plays a role in high school sports is often tied to ideological beliefs. Ideologies are basic ideas and beliefs that are used in society that most commonly benefit people with power and wealth by justifying why they have the experiences and opportunities that they do. As well as benefiting the powerful and wealthy, those with lower economic status often buy into

Every society requires social control and order. Without social control, whether it is dysfunctional or lost, ciaos ensues. Acceptable social control varies differently depending on the society. Each society has its own methods to achieving successful social control. Cultural control is a method of internalized control used to control behaviors through ones thoughts and beliefs. For example, in the United States it is seen as a crime and extremely frowned upon for a sex over the age of eighteen to have a sexual or intimate relationship with a minor of the same or opposite sex. The law, that states it is wrong to have relation with a minor even if the minor is on mutual grounds, influences everyone to believe that anyone who

Political socialisation is the process towards the individual learns and starts to grasp the political and social system in which he is a part of and he has to deal with. (Greenberg, 1970, pp. 3-4) Some scholars have been theorized two approaches to the theory of political socialisation: Primacy and Recency approach. In this essay I will look into the two approaches and the factors which influence people political orientation such as religion, gender and race.

Education is an important structure in society that shapes the most important years of your life, and therefore many theorists have ideas about what is wrong with education, what is right, and what needs to change or develop. Education is confined a lot by social control and social reproduction. Social control is a concept that refers to how social systems control the way we feel, think, behave, and even how we should present ourselves. These can appear openly, shown as rules and laws, or they could be not openly acknowledged and just appear as the “common” thing to do. Social reproduction is the reproduction of inequalities throughout generation-to-generation, one way education does this is how it supplies “wealthy” schools more and “poor” schools less. Michael Apple and Maxine Greene both define Social reproductions and Social Control. Throughout this text, I will explain the theories of Greene and Apple, as well as comparing and contrasting them against one another while applying some of my own experiences of education.