One and the most important conditions for the normal functioning of society (or other social unit) is the predictability of the actions of people.Otherwise it threatens total destruction.
In order to maintain the necessary norms of social behavior, the company uses special mechanisms of influence on the minds of people in order to ensure continuity of existing interactions and relationships.
One of these mechanisms is a social control function of which is to create conditions for social stability.
There is a view that the personality is formed as a means of survival in a society as a result of control over the behavior of the person who carried out the surrounding people.
They teach man certain norms and rules accepted in this society.Gradually, learning and fixing the samples graying man becomes a person.IeHe is trained to comply with social norms based on their individual characteristics.
In case of violation of community norms, social identity expect sanctions, which are all means to encourage the person to comply with the established procedure.More often than not under sanctions understand some means of punishment faced by people, departing from certain rules.
However, social sanctions might look like and how the promotion or support of right conduct.
Social norms and sanctions are always intertwined, one can not exist without the other.A gradual easing of sanctions could lead to the complete disappearance of the norm.
With them carried out social control over the observance of the rules, which, in turn, guard the values accepted in society.For example, the prosperity of the family is an important value for society.So, everything that contributes to the good of the family, is seen as the norm, including the ability of men to protect their loved ones.Therefore, the public stereotype implies that it must be strong.Weakness exposed to sanctions in the form of contempt and ridicule of others, and the force is encouraged that vividly illustrated by the traditional societies, where a man has always been the head of the family, and he belonged to the government.If standards are beginning to "blur", losing clear borders, there is instability.For example, in modern society, the role of man as the leader and protector is not so obvious.Relationships in the family, accordingly, is not as stable as in traditional cultures.
There are 4 types of sanctions: positive, negative, informal and formal.
Recent imply promotion or punishment that comes from official organizations.
Informal positive or negative sanctions - public approval or condemnation, not of an official character.This can be a friendly praise tacit approval or, alternatively, disregard and ridicule.
Positive social sanctions always imply promotion of any activity, and negative - sentence.
Depending on the severity of the sanctions imposed in case of violation of a rule, you can select the types of social norms.The first has to do with the peculiarities of human behavior in a given situation.It manners and etiquette.The next type implies a deeper level of personality changes.These include traditions and customs, and habits of the group.And the third point, implying a tough punishment for deviation - the laws and taboos.
Disobeying rules to some extent characteristic of any community.There are always people who, for whatever reasons, reject not only tradition, but also the laws.Usually, they are subject to punishment, but in their place come the other.According to sociologists, the percentage of people who violate the rules constant in any community.It is due to this balance is achieved and flexibility, as well as an opportunity to develop social units.Violators always reveal weaknesses in the whole social system and show that could threaten her.
social control and social sanctions in the education of "fixed" in the human mind.If the unconscious part of the mind is a repository of uncontrollable impulses, the mind must provide a deterrent function.But this is not always the case.Deep foundations public bans can also go into the realm of the unconscious and from there to control human behavior.Thus formed the culture of a society.Prohibitions and taboos become part of the collective unconscious and does not require constant monitoring.
Excessive external control leads to the fact that society degrades as the person ceases to be responsible for their lives and actions.The society should be made for the self-determination of the individual with the necessary standards.This is the primary goal of a harmonious society.
