registration
politics, power, and war
regulations
credentialling
police work
punishment
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
politics and law
law and order
informal social control
authorization
institutionalisation
discipline
licensing
concepts
formal social control
indoctrination