social control

noun

1. Sociology. the enforcement of conformity by society upon its members, either by law or by social pressure.
2. the influence of any element in social life working to maintain the pattern of such life.

Example Sentences

One section focused on the chilling effects of any institution that pays close attention, in routine and systematic ways, to individuals, thereby becoming a means of social control.

From Voice of San Diego

They sought to use ideas concerning automobiles and safety to reassert social control by marking women’s mobility as problematic, immoral and even criminal.

From Washington Post

He wants to build an all-seeing digital system of social control, patrolled by precog algorithms that identify potential dissenters in real time.

From Singularity Hub 

Because it is, as Spade and Wilse say, a “tool of social control used by governments to regulate sexuality and family formation.”

From The Daily Beast

The literature on the taming of animals, the education of juveniles and adults, and on social control belongs in this field.

From Project Gutenberg

Social control has been studied, but, in the wide extension that sociology has given to the term, it has not been defined.

From Project Gutenberg

Herbert Spencer, in his chapter on "Ceremonial Government," has defined social control from this more fundamental point of view.

From Project Gutenberg

How does social control in human society differ from that in animal society?

From Project Gutenberg

How do you distinguish between public opinion, advertising, and propaganda as means and forms of social control?

From Project Gutenberg