The document discusses formal and informal means of social control. Formal control includes laws, education, and coercion enforced by authorized agencies and institutions. Informal control arises through social factors like values, customs, public opinion, and relationships. Key informal means are folkways, ideologies, and social suggestions that guide behavior through culture rather than force. Together, formal and informal control help maintain social order and solidarity.

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 Raafia Javed
 Muhammad Afaq
 Qurat ull Ain
 Ali Asgher
 Waseem Ahmed
Group Members

3. Social Control
Formal And Informal
Means of Social Control

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 Society
 Social factors
 Social control
 Needs for social control
 Formal control
 Formal means of social control
Content

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 Society is a group of people who share a defined
territory and a culture.
 Society is also the social structure and interactions of
that group of people.
 Social structure is the relatively enduring patterns of
behavior and relationships within a society.
Society

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 Society is also the social structure and interactions of
that group of people.
 A society is not only the group of people and their
culture, but the relationships between the people and
the institutions within that group
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 Religion
 Ethnicity
 Family
 Physical attributes (Skin color)
 Economic Status
Social Factors

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 Informal social control
 Informal means of social control
 Top agencies of social control
Cont….

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 Education
 Locality (Where you live Type of Neighbors etc.)
 Life Partner and Children
 Political System (Democratic or Socialist)
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 Social control is the sum of those methods by which
a society tries to influence human behavior to
maintain a given order.
 Any society must have harmony and order.
 Society is a harmonious organization of human
relationships
Social Control

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 It controls the behavior, attitude and actions of
individual to balance their social situation
 A man is born free but in chains everywhere he lives
 These are the social norms on which whole society is
running.
Cont….

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 For smooth functions and running of these norms
these controls are necessary
 It regulates harmony and brings unity among
individual of the same group
 It also affects socialization process
Cont….

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 When social norms are followed by the people of the
society, It means that they adopt conformity to
society and establish control
 The deviancy from these norms leads to punishment
may be lighter or serious, which touch the border of
law
Cont….

14.  Social solidarity is essential for the existence of
society
 No two persons is alike in their nature, ideas,
attitudes and interests.
 There are cultural differences among the individuals
 As a matter of fact society is a heterogeneous
organization
Needs for S.C

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 If every individual is allowed unrestricted freedom
to act and behave, it may create social disorder
 The aims of social control are to bring out
conformity, solidarity and continuity of a particular
group or society.
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 For an orderly social life social control is necessary
 Without social control, society as well as individual
cannot exist
 Therefore, the need of social control is very essential.
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 Reestablishing the Old Social System
 Regulate or control individual behavior
 Obedience to Social Decisions
 To Establish Social Unity
 To bring Solidarity
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 To bring Conformity in Society
 To provide social sanction
 To check cultural mal-adjustment
 To maintain permanency of the organization
Cont….

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 Need of the social control is to keep the existing
order intact
 The aged members of the family enforce their ideas
over the children
 Although enforcement of the old order in a
changing society may hinder social progress
Reestablishing The Old
Social System

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 People are not alike in their living methods, so that
due to this contrast there is a possibility of clash
between them
 Social control is necessary to protect social interests
and satisfy common need.
 Due to the removal of social control, society would
be reduced to state of jungle
To Regulate or Control
Individual Behavior

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 Society takes certain decisions.
 These decisions are taken in order to
maintain and upheld the values of the society
 Through social control attempt is made to get the
social decision obeyed
Obedience to Social
Decisions

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 Unity is not possible without social control.
 Social control regulates the behavior of individuals
in accordance with established norms which brings
uniformity of behavior
 It brings unity among the individuals
To Establish Social Unity

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 Social control is to create the feelings of solidarity in
the minds of people
 In the competitive world, the weaker group may be
exploited by the stronger group
 Equally powerful groups may clash among
themselves
To Bring Solidarity

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 This affects the harmony and order.
 Some groups may develop anti-social attitudes and
pose danger to the organization of the society
 Therefore there is necessity for the different
groups and institutions.
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 Social control is intended to bring about regularity in
the behavior of the individual members of the
society
 Social control also brings about different types of
conformities in their societies
To Bring Conformity in
Society

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 Social control provides social sanction to the social
ways of behavior
 There are numerous folkways, modes and customs
prevalent in society
 Every individual has to follow them
To Provide Social Sanction

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 If an individual violets the social norms, he is
compelled through social control to observe them
 Social control provides sanction to social norms
Cont….

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 Formal control is deliberately created
 State make use of law, legislation, military force,
police force, administrative devices etc
 Different other institutions like political, religious,
economic, culture or other associations also involved
in formal control
Formal Control

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 Various rules are laid down to make it specific
 Necessity of following rules is clearly stated by
institutions.
 Violators of formal control are given punishment.
 Punishment depending upon nature and type of
violation.
Cont….

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 Organization make use of formal control create a
official body with power to enforce control
 Organization established the police force military
force etc
 Banks, army, factory all these come under formal
control
Cont….

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 Law
 Education
 Coercion
Formal Means of Social
Control

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 Law Is the most important formal means of social
control
 Early societies depended upon informal means of
social control but when societies grew they were
compelled to rules regulations.
 Rules regulations define the require types of
behavior which imposed those who violate them
Law

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 Law Is a body of rules legally enforced by authorized
agencies.
 it defines clearly rights duties as well as punishment
for their violation.
 Modern societies' structure consisting of number of
groups, institutions or organization which require
formal control
Cont….

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 Law prescribes uniform norms bad penalties
throughout a social system.
 The earlier customs has been formalized into a body
of law
 Law in every state is being increased
Cont….

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 Education is a process of socialization.
 It prepare the child for social living
 It reforms the attitude wrongly formed by children
already.
 it teaches value of discipline, social cooperation,
tolerance and sacrifice.
Education

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 It instills in individual quality of honesty, fair play
and sense of right and wrong
 Importance of education as a means of social control
is being growingly realized
 Education for creating right social attitude among
youth
Cont….

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 Is the use of force to achieve a desired end.
 It may physical or not violent
 Coercion is lowest form of social control
 It may have immediate effects upon the offender but
it does not have enduring effects.
Coercion

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 Non-Violent consist of the strikes, boycott and non-
cooperation
 Boycott is the withholding of social or economic
intercourse with other to express disapproval
 It can be a successful way off effecting social control
Cont….

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 Informal control includes gossip, slander,
resentment, public opinion, sympathy, folkways,
mores, customs and such other agents
 They are more effective than the formal control
 They become deep rooted with people in their
practices
Informal Control

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 They don’t require any extra staff to enforce them.
 They don’t have the physical force to enforce
conformity to them.
 Faith in religion, moral convictions, public opinion,
artistic standard are found to be more important in
informal control.
Cont….

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 Value
 Folkways
 Customs
 Ideologies
 Social Suggestions
Informal Means

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 It consist of culturally defined goals.
 It involves various degrees of “sentiments and
significance.
 They are basic , though not exclusive.
 Values are “goals worth striving for”
Values

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 Folkways are the recognized modes of behavior
which arise automatically within a group
 They are the behavior patterns of everyday life
which arise spontaneously and unconsciously in a
group,
 It is not easy for the members of a group to violate
the folkways.
Folkways

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 They are the long established habits and usages of
the people.
 They are those folkways and mores which have
persisted for a very long time and have passes down
from one generation to another.
 They arise spontaneously and gradually
 They are accepted and followed by the society.
Customs

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 Ideology is a theory of social life which interprets
social realities from the point of view of ideals to
prove correctness of the analysis and to justify these
ideals.
 It is the projection of a certain ideal.
 Ideologies influence social life to a very great extent.
Ideologies

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 Social suggestions and ideologies are important
social control methods,
 through these suggestions and ideologies society
control the behavior of its members.
 Society also controls the behavior of its people
through many several ways such as through books,
writings and spoken words inculcation of ideas.
Social Suggestions

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 In simple societies, public opinion as a means of
social control is greater.
 In village people know one another so it is difficult
for a villager to act contrary to the public opinion of
the village.
 Public opinions greatly influences our actions.
Public Opinion

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 Family
 Neighborhood
 The School
 Administration
Important Agencies of
Social Control

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 Force
 Propaganda
 Religion
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 Family is an important agency of social control.
 It is the first place where an individual is socialized
 He learns various methods of living, behavior
patterns, convention etc..
 He is taught to behave and respect social laws and
obey social controls.
Family

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 Neighborhood is a simple and specific part of a
community.
 It has a feeling or sentiment of local unit.
 There may be more than one neighborhood in a
community
Neighborhood

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 The school is a very powerful agency of social
control. It exercises social control through education.
 The child learns many things from the school, which
he cannot learn from other sources
 In the college, also the students are required to obey
social controls
The School

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 The child is taught to obey the discipline, which a
student learns at school lasts with him throughout
his life.
 The school and college or educational institutions are
next to family as agencies of social control
Cont….

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 Administration is very powerful and the most
effective instrument of social control.
 It forces the individual to obey social control.
 The administrations punish the violators with the
help of the police, the army etc
Administration

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 Physical force or coercion is an important means of
social control.
 It is ancient as society itself.
 Even these days some societies resort to it against
the deviants or those who disobey social norms
 It is essential for social progress
Force

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 Every state has its own armed forces or police force.
 It is an effective weapon to prevent people from
indulging in anti-social activities
 It also makes people, obey social order
Cont….

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 The state carries out its functions by means of law,
which is ultimately backed by physical force.
 As an important agency of social, control the state
exercises its force over its people through various
means such as the government law, administration,
the armed forces, the police and the like
Cont….

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 Religion influences a powerful influence upon man’s
behavior in society.
 Religion is an attitude towards superhuman powers
 It is a belief in powers superior to man.
Religion

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 It expresses itself in several forms like superstition,
animism, totemism, magic, ritualism and fetishism.
 Religion pervades practically in all the societies,
though there may be different forms of religious
beliefs and practices
Cont….