9.2 - Punishment & Social Control

What is social control?

Give an example

Ways in which a social system attempts to regulate people’s behaviour, feelings and appearance

Influencers are form of social control

What are the 2 types of social control?

Internal and external social control

What is internal social control?
How is it achieved?

Source of conformity to social expectation is:

Shapes people’s attitude. Come to regard deviant behaviour as undesirable
Achieved via socialization

Internal to the social actor

What is external social control?

Source of conformity to social expectation is:

Regulates behaviour. Imposes punishments and offers rewards

External to the social actor

What is panopticism?

How people in society react to being subjected to a specific kind of surveillance

Michele Foucault in 1975 introduced _____ in a work titled: Discipline and Punish

Concept of panopticism

What is panopticon?

Possibility of being watched is constant
Never know whether you are being watched in an individual moment

What is the internalization of the gaze?

When no one is watching you, but you feel like you are potentially being watched so your behaviour is based on that.

A postmodern erosion of privacy