SOCIAL CONTROL

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Control exerted (actively or passively) by group action

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("social control" is a kind of...):

group action (action taken by a group of people)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "social control"):

corrections (the social control of offenders through a system of imprisonment and rehabilitation and probation and parole)

demobilisation; demobilization (act of changing from a war basis to a peace basis including disbanding or discharging troops)

militarisation; militarization; mobilisation; mobilization (act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency:)

patronage ((politics) granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support)

discrimination; favoritism; favouritism (unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice)

detribalisation; detribalization (the act of causing tribal people to abandon their customs and adopt urban ways of living)

denationalisation; denationalization; privatisation; privatization (changing something from state to private ownership or control)

communisation; communization; nationalisation; nationalization (changing something from private to state ownership or control)

appeasement; calming (the act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of))

deprivation; privation (act of depriving someone of food or money or rights)

direction; management (the act of managing something)

military control; occupation (the control of a country by military forces of a foreign power)

duty; obligation; responsibility (the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force)

acculturation; enculturation; socialisation; socialization (the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture)

domination (social control by dominating)

enforcement (the act of enforcing; ensuring observance of or obedience to)

population control (control over the growth of population; a government program)

sanction (a mechanism of social control for enforcing a society's standards)

auto limitation (social control achieved as a manifestation of self-will or general consent)