SOC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ender Wiggin, Syphilis, Compulsory Sterilization
Document Summary
Social control is ties to socialization and culture. All groups have mechanisms to ensure conformality. (+/-) sanctions. The attempt to manipulates the sensuousness of citizens so that they accept the ruling ideology to be moved by competing ideologies. Agents of isc: family, education, religion, media and government. Control of what we know and do not know. Individuals impose controls upon themselves (most efficient) The attempt to punish or neutralize (render powerless) organizations or individuals who devote from societies norms. Agents of dsc: welfare, science, medicine and government. Historical: forced sterilization of women (poor, women of color and mentally disabled) Recently: drugs- to children to control them, people in mental institutions, nursing homes. Poor: government, criminal justice system: give them just a little bit of money but it does not get them out of poverty. Criminals or anyone with a record: jail, jobs: treated different than people with clean records and can not get jobs.
