Definition of "social control" [social control]

Any control, either formal or informal, that is exerted by a group, especially by one's peers (noun)

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Use "social control" in a sentence

"In the end there appeared a real danger in the domain of casuistry — the possibility that, in its hands, the specification and specialized appli - cation of general rules essential to social control and the moralization of everyday life would turn into their dissolution — differently expressed, that casuistry which up to then had been a relativized absolutism would degenerate into an absolute relativism."

Words like "social control"

communization denationalisation discrimination government

group action military control nationalization obligation

occupation penalization penalty population control

privatisation privatization responsibility socialization