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	Social control - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Social control is present in all societies, if only in the control mechanisms used to prevent its establishment in anarchic situations.
		Informal social control is exercised by a society without explicitly stating these rules and is expressed through custom, norms, and mores using informal sanctions such as criticism, disapproval, guilt and shaming.
		In democratic societies the goals and mechanisms of social control are determined through legislation by elected representatives and thus enjoy a measure of support from the population and voluntary compliance.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Social_control (348 words)

	Learn more about Social control in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Social control is the processes of informal social control such as custom and formal social control such as law of deviant behavior which falls beyond the bounds set by social norms.
		Formal social control is expressed through law as statutes, rules, and regulation.
		As society becomes more complex more and more reliance must be placed on formal mechanisms.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /s/so/social_control.html (419 words)

	Formal social control -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Formal social control -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Formal (Control exerted (actively or passively) by group action) social control of behaviors include things such as (The collection of rules imposed by authority) laws and codes that a society abides by.
		See (Insuring obedience to the laws) law enforcement and (Click link for more info and facts about informal social control) informal social control.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fo/formal_social_control.htm (64 words)

	Social Sciences [encyclopedia] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		According to Western liberal political theory, a body of law attempts to balance individual rights and social control, which are viewed as being inversely related, and is enforced by a system of criminal justice.
		Many social scientists use the term more broadly, to refer both to formal and informal systems of social control.
		Sociology studies the social rules and processes that bind -- and separate -- people not only as individuals, but as members of associations, groups, and institutions.
	artzia.com /Society/Social_Science (443 words)

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