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SOCIAL CONTROL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does social control mean? 

SOCIAL CONTROL (noun)
  The noun SOCIAL CONTROL has 1 sense:

1. control exerted (actively or passively) by group actionplay

  Familiarity information: SOCIAL CONTROL used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SOCIAL CONTROL (noun)


Sense 1

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"):

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

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

penalisation; penalization; penalty; punishment (the act of punishing)

normalisation; normalization; standardisation; standardization (the imposition of standards or regulations)

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)

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

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)

administration; governance; governing; government; government activity (the act of governing; exercising authority)

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

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


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