Internal Forms of Social Control

SOCIAL CONTROL

persuading or compelling people conform to society’s norms, laws and expectations

What would happen if people stopped behaving as they are expected to?

everything would turn into chaos and disorder

may lead to criminal behaviour

INTERNAL FORMS OF SC

controls behaviour that comes from ourselves

follow society’s rules ( think it is the right thing to do)

MORAL CONSCIENCE

Freud - we conform to society’s expectations + obey rules - society says to

superego develops part of personality (tells us what is right / wrong)

don’t do what it says = creates guilty feelings

TRADITION / CULTURE

cultures that we belong to become part of us through socialisation

accept values, norms and traditions

EXAMPLE: believers follow traditions they are raised in

conform to traditions = accepted as member of community

INTERNALISATION - SR / MORALITY

superego + tradition become part of inner self / personality

internalise through socialisation - from parents / social groups

society’s rules become personal rules

TF - conform willingly to social norms

RATIONAL IDEOLOGY

internalise social rules

use them to say what is right / wrong

enables us to keep within the law