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Social Control
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Social control is the set of mechanisms by which a society encourages conformity to its norms, running from a raised eyebrow to imprisonment.
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Most social control is informal, immediate, and delivered by whoever happens to be present.
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Formal control is visible and rare; informal control does nearly all of the work.