Social Control

_________________ include(s) the methods used to teach, persuade, or force people to comply with norms and expectations.

• Mechanisms of social control

• Deviance

• Conformity

• Context

Ideally, conformity should be

• imposed.

• established through informal negative sanctions.

• something people want to do.

• encouraged by offering rewards.

____________________ is a reaction of approval or disapproval to another’s behavior or appearance.

• Deviance

• Conformity

• Retreatism

• A sanction

Ridicule, imprisonment, and withdrawal of affection are examples of _______ sanctions.

• informal

• positive

• negative

• formal

Six-year-old Martha picks up her toys and puts them away. Her father smiles and pats her on the back. The smile and pat represent a ____________ sanction.

• positive formal

• negative formal

• negative informal

• positive informal

Which one of the following is an informal sanction?

• a medal

• a diploma

• a frown

• the death penalty

Police officers employ _____________ sanctions when they arrest people suspected of breaking the law.

• positive formal

• negative formal

• negative informal

• positive informal

___________________ is a method employed to prevent information from reaching some audience.

• Censorship

• Surveillance

• A negative sanction

• A positive sanction

Sociologist Kingsley Dennis dates the rise of decentralized surveillance to 1992, the year of

• the Rodney King incident.

• the OJ Simpson trial.

• Tiananmen Square.

• the 1^st Iraq War.

The Chinese government blocks access to websites of Time Magazine, National Public Radio, and the Washington Post. That government is engaging is

• surveillance.

• conformity.

• innovation.

• censorship.