Social control
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Social control refers to social mechanisms that regulate individual and group behavior, leading to conformity and compliances to the rules of a given society or social group.
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See also
- Informal social control
- Social order
- Surveillance
- Criminal justice
- Shame society
- Guilt society
- Social change
- Social relations
- Social constructionism
- Social engineering
- Islamic religious police
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