Society is a collectivity of groups and individuals. For the welfare and advancement of society, it prescribes norms to maintain harmony or order. Social control is the way in which society regulates the behavior of its individual members.

Social control is a pattern, suggestions, persuasion, restraint and coercion by whatever means including physical force by which a society brings into conformity to the approved pattern of behavior.

Social control is the way in which entire social order coheres and maintain itself.

DEFINITIONS OF SOCIAL CONTROL H.C. Bearly says “social control is collective

term for those processes, planned and unplanned, by which individuals are taught persuaded or compelled to conform to the usages and life values of group.”

E.A.Ross defines “social control as the system of devices whereby society brings its members into conformity with the accepted standards of behavior.”

Ogburn and Nimkoff are of the opinion that “social control is the pattern of pressure which society exerts to maintain order and establish rules.”

Need of Social

ControlTo

Regulate Individual Behavior

To Maintain the Old Order

To establish

Social Unity

To Provide Social

Sanction

To check Cultural

Maladjustment

SOCIAL CONTROL THEORY: DEVELOPED BY TRAVIS HIRSCHI IN 1969.

TYPES OF SOCIAL CONTROL

Karl Mannheim has divided social control as

DIRECT SOCIAL

CONTROL

INDIRECT SOCIAL

CONTROL

Kimball Young divided social control as

POSITIVE SOCIAL CONTROL

NEGATIVE SOCIAL CONTROL

Many eminent sociologists have classified social control mainly as these two types and this classification has been widely accepted-

SOCIAL CONTROL

INFORMAL MEANS OF SOCIAL CONTROL

(INTERNAL SOCIAL CONTROL)

FORMAL SOCIAL CONTROL

(EXTERNAL SOCIAL CONTROL)

Informal Social Control (Internal social Control)-These are personal, Unofficial and uncodified. It lies within the individual and it is developed during socialization.

Formal Social Control (External Social Control)-Codified, systematic, formal mechanism with written set rules. External social control are formal techniques, in which Govt. is responsible to prevent chaos in society.

AGENCIES OF INFORMAL OF SOCIAL CONTROL

Folkways: Mores Norms Values Customs Religion Family Peer-Group Public Opinion

AGENCIES OF FORMAL SOCIAL CONTROL Law Education Coercion or physical force

THANK YOU……Dr. Seema Kumari, Assistant Professor, NIU, Delhi/NCR.