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Formal and Informal Social Control
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Formal social control is exercised by authorized agents through official sanctions; informal social control is exercised by ordinary people through everyday reaction.
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A court imposes a fine; a colleague's silence after a remark does comparable work more cheaply.
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Informal control reaches conduct no formal system could observe.
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