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Social Controls and Sanctions
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Learning Target
Today
I will define and identify
examples of controls and sanctions
So
I can understand how society and
groups maintain stability
I’ll
know I have it when I can give
examples of each and explain how
they maintain stability.
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Social Control (pg. 182):
“ways to encourage conformity to societies
norms”
Internal: Internalizing social norms, when you do
or don’t do something because you know it is
the right thing to do.
External: Rewards and punishments to help
keep stability when people do not conform to
internal socialization
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Talk with your partner,
write down 3 internal and
external social controls
you may have/display?
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Social Sanctions (pg. 183):
Are rewards or punishments that
encourage conformity to social norms.
Social Sanctions are part of external social controls,
these may be formal or informal. In other words, they
may be official (prison) or casual everyday gestures
(compliment) .
Sanctions can be,
Positive: Encourage conformity
Negative: Intended to stop unacceptable behaviors
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Talk with your partner,
what are some positive
and negative sanctions at
Widefield? Are they formal
or informal?
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Exit/Practice:
Groups will be given a small poster with type of Control or Sanction. It will be
numbered 1-5. The groups will have to give one example.
After about 2 minutes, students will switch posters and explain how #1(the
previous groups) maintains stability within a given group.
Students will then give a new example on #2 and repeat the process.
Students will do the same for each new topic.
Students will need to write about something different from what is already
written. Some things may overlap
Internal Social Control :
External Social Control: Write if
formal or informal
Positive Social Sanction :
Negative Social Sanction :