social control
Noun
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is a type of: group action - action taken by a group of peoplesubtypes:
- auto limitation - social control achieved as a manifestation of self-will or general consent
- sanction - a mechanism of social control for enforcing a society's standards
- population control - control over the growth of population; a government program
- administration, governance, governing, government, government activity - the act of governing; exercising authority
- enforcement - the act of enforcing; ensuring observance of or obedience to
- domination - social control by dominating
- acculturation, enculturation, socialisation, socialization - the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture
- duty, obligation, responsibility - the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force
- military control, occupation - the control of a country by military forces of a foreign power
- direction, management - the act of managing something
- deprivation, privation - act of depriving someone of food or money or rights
- appeasement, calming - the act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of)
- communisation, communization, nationalisation, nationalization - changing something from private to state ownership or control
- denationalisation, denationalization, privatisation, privatization - changing something from state to private ownership or control
- detribalisation, detribalization - the act of causing tribal people to abandon their customs and adopt urban ways of living
- discrimination, favoritism, favouritism - unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice
- patronage - (politics) granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support
- militarisation, militarization, mobilisation, mobilization - act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency:
- demobilisation, demobilization - act of changing from a war basis to a peace basis including disbanding or discharging troops
- normalisation, normalization, standardisation, standardization - the imposition of standards or regulations
- penalisation, penalization, penalty, punishment - the act of punishing
- corrections - the social control of offenders through a system of imprisonment and rehabilitation and probation and parole
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