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(a) Social control is the means by which members of a society attempt to induce each other to comply with the society's norms. (b) Behaviour that is in accord with the expectations of social groups. (c) Deviance is behaviour that violates the social norms of a group or society. Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?

(a) Social control is the means by which members of a society attempt to induce each other to comply with the society's norms. (b) Behaviour that is in accord with the expectations of social groups. (c) Deviance is behaviour that violates the social norms of a group or society. Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct? Correct Answer All of the above

The correct answer is All of the above.

​Key Points

  • Social Control Theory
  • ​Key Terms
    • socialization: The process of learning one’s culture and how to live within it.
    • Social Control Theory: Social control theory proposes that people’s relationships, commitments, values, norms, and beliefs encourage them not to break the law. Thus, if moral codes are internalized and individuals are tied into and have a stake in their wider community, they will voluntarily limit their propensity to commit deviant acts.
    • Discipline and Punish
      • ​The Birth of the Prison is a 1975 book by the French philosopher Michel Foucault.
      • Social control is the means by which members of a society attempt to induce each other to comply with society's norms.
      • Behavior that is in accord with the expectations of social groups.
      • Deviance is behavior that violates the social norms of a group or society.
      • Social control theory seeks to understand how to reduce deviance.
      • Ultimately, social control theory is Hobbesian, it presupposes that all choices are constrained by social relations and contracts between parties.
      • Like Hobbes, adherents to social control theory suggest that morality is created within a social order by assigning costs and consequences to certain actions that are marked as evil, wrong, illegal, or deviant.

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