authorization
concepts
credentialling
discipline
formal social control
indoctrination
informal social control
institutionalisation
law and order
licensing
police work
politics, power, and war
politics and law
punishment
registration
regulations
Social control, like community, is a venerable concept informing sociology from its inception at the turn of the nineteenth century and remaining central in social thought to the present day. Social control has a variety of definitions, some broader and some more narrow. [Source: Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World; Social Control]
social control