noun
control exerted (actively or passively) by group action (Freq. 1)
• Hypernyms: ↑group action
• Hyponyms:
↑auto limitation, ↑sanction, ↑population control, ↑government, ↑governing, ↑governance, ↑government activity, ↑administration, ↑enforcement, ↑domination, ↑socialization, ↑socialisation, ↑acculturation, ↑enculturation, ↑duty, ↑responsibility, ↑obligation, ↑occupation, ↑military control, ↑management, ↑direction, ↑privation, ↑deprivation, ↑appeasement, ↑calming, ↑nationalization, ↑nationalisation, ↑communization, ↑communisation, ↑denationalization, ↑denationalisation, ↑privatization, ↑privatisation, ↑detribalization, ↑detribalisation, ↑discrimination, ↑favoritism, ↑favouritism, ↑patronage, ↑mobilization, ↑mobilisation, ↑militarization, ↑militarisation, ↑demobilization, ↑demobilisation, ↑standardization, ↑standardisation, ↑normalization, ↑normalisation, ↑punishment, ↑penalty, ↑penalization, ↑penalisation, ↑corrections
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noun : the rules and standards of society that circumscribe individual action through the inculcation of conventional sanctions and the imposition of formalized mechanisms
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1. Sociol. the enforcement of conformity by society upon its members, either by law or by social pressure.
2. the influence of any element in social life working to maintain the pattern of such life.
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social control,
1. control of individual behavior by society.
2. control of social institutions in the interest of the whole society.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.