Student Name: TODAY’S LESSON….. • Write in this book: • Topic: Social Control Learning intention: To gain an insight into how behaviour is controlled in society • Success criteria: – I can define formal and informal social control and provide examples of each – I can explain how social control can vary depending on the country you live in WARM-UP: • What does the word control mean? What does the word social control mean? • What different forms of social control do we have in our society? AGENTS OF SOCIAL CONTROL HOW DO WE LEARN TO OBEY SOCIAL RULES? WHY DO WE LEARN TO OBEY RULES? What is going to influence this new born baby to learn and obey society’s rules??? Education Peer groups Media The police Religious belief Legal systems Youth clubs Family Work and careers SOCIAL CONTROL: THE DEFINITION (write in your books) • What is Social Control? • the ways in which society tries to ensure that it’s members do not break norms or commit crimes. • Social control makes people conform to the rules of society. WHAT IS INFORMAL SOCIAL CONTROL? • (write in your books) • What is informal social control? • Informal social control is how we are persuaded to conform through being taught what is acceptable. • This happens through socialisation and occurs within social groups or settings. Provide an exa Choose the exa that matches t control: UNDERSTANDING INFORMAL SOCIAL CONTROL Copy this table into your exercise book and fill in the gaps Type of Informal Social Control The Family Education Peer Groups Work The Media Religion Action taken to persuade people to obey the rules? Example: • excludin don’t ha • going perio • Punis mout on de • Consequence of rule if broken: e p b • K to • Be dr THE FAMILY EDUCATION PEER GROUPS WORK THE MEDIA RELIGION FORMAL SOCIAL CONTROL: THE DEFINITION. • What does Formal Social control mean? • Formal social control is the creation of laws and rules to control people’s behaviour. • The agencies of social control include: THE POLICE • How do the police act as agencies of social control? THE GOVERNMENT • How does the government act as an agency of social control? THE JUDICIARY – JUDGES AND THE COURTS • Or the court system. How do they act as an agency of social control? THE PENAL SYSTEM (COMMONLY KNOWN AS PRISON SYSTEM) • How does the prison system act as an agency of social control FORMAL SOCIAL CONTROL: In your books write this table: Formal Social control is the creation of laws and rules to control people’s behaviour. The agencies of social control include: Type of Formal Social Control The Police The Government The Judiciary The Penal System How does it persuade people to obey rules? DO WE NEED FORMAL SOCIAL CONTROL? In your books, answer the following Questions 1. Why do we need formal social control? Think: why do some people never come into contact with any of the agencies of Formal Social Control? 2. What does FORMAL & INFORMAL mean for sociologists? Think: when we looked at formal and informal learning in the education, what did this mean? AGENCIES OF SOCIAL CONTROL HOW DO WE LEARN TO OBEY SOCIAL RULES? Can you answer the following questions: • Do you know what sociologists mean by formal and informal social control? • Can you explain how formal and informal control works? • Why are formal social controls needed? COMPARING SOCIAL CONTROL OF ONE COUNTRY WITH OTHER COUNTRIES • Use the table on slide #27 and point out as many differences between different countries in relation to the following: In Australia (a democratic country)- on a scale of 0 to 10, • What amount of social control, do you think the government places on people? • In Korea (which has a Korean style of communism) on a scale of 0 to 10, what do you think is the amount of social control that the government place on its people? • Point out some similarities and differences between the type of social control in each country (point at least to three differences) WATCH THESE VIDEOS • Watch 10 Strange School Rules in Korea and makes notes on 10 of these rules https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqGN5qaPRcg. How different are they from Australia's society? Put the rules in a table and compare them with Australia. Here are some differences: – haircuts – tourist travelling around the country – leaving the country – TV channels – Internet access FURTHER UNDERSTANDING TASKS: • Let's now look at one more country Singapore - Watch 10 Craziest Laws you can only find in Singapore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxm7Re-gEdk • Additional video: Watch Regular Things that are Illegal in North Korea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R_z5V3ycN8 TASK: IN YOUR BOOKS DRAW UP A TABLE POINT OUT FOUR DIFFERENCES AND THREE SIMIL ARITIES BET WEEN AUSTRALIA AND KOREA IN REL ATION TO THE FOLLOWING IN THE TABLE. • In your books: Point out four differences and three similarities between Australia and Korea in relation to the following in the table. The similarities you can think about the headings yourself. DIFFERENT FORMS OF SOCIAL • CONTROL DIFFERENCES TYPE OF GOVT LEVELS OF GOVT CONTROL: 0 TO 10 EXAMPLES OF SOCIAL CONTROL EXAMPLES OF INFORMAL SOCIAL CONTROLS SIMILARITIES North Korea Australia Singapore EXIT PASS: • Draw a mind map of the formal and informal social controls we have in our society • Provide as many examples of each that you can. • Think, pair, share your answers to come up with some more. EXIT PASS: TYPES OF SOCIAL CONTROL MIND MAP Types of Social control Formal social control Informal social control Your text here Your text here Your text here Your text here Your text here Your text here REFLECTION: TWO STARS AND A WISH • What did you find interesting about this lesson? • What was something you learnt that you did not know about? • If I had a wish I would like to know more about?
