social control

1. Control exerted (actively or passively) by group action (synset 101125919)
   is a type of: group action - action taken by a group of people
   subtypes:

   • 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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