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SOCIAL CONTROL
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I. (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"):
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)
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)
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)
auto limitation (social control achieved as a manifestation of self-will or general consent)
