Social Control

Social Control

Social control is defined as the social mechanisms that control the behavior of an individual or a group that may serve as guide in agreement to the policy and regulations of the society . In almost all cultures , social control is present . Evidences have shown that there are variations in the social control between the United States and other countries as discussed by Black . There was a done by Ousey and Fleury-Steiner concerning the investigations of the different variations in regions and culture . Results showed that evidence in variations of

social control is clearly shown by the racial threats experienced by blacks in the United States of America comparing to the discrimination they feel in their own country . It was pointed out by Ousey and Fleury-Steiner that there is a higher rate of capture and imprisonment of blacks in areas where there is a larger share of the like for example in some of the states in the United States of America This scenario had happened since competition of jobs and also housing benefits and political rights formerly enjoyed by all white people was created together with the rampant growing of population of the blacks (Ousey and Fleury-Steiner , 2006 . Moreover , Eitle discussed in one of his articles that there are three hypotheses concerning the racial threat experienced by blacks (Eitle , 2000 . Threats in political economical and Black crime were the three hypotheses that determined the rate of social control imposed by the black population . To compare the racial threat of black population in their own African continent , it had been presented that arrest and imprisonment of blacks due to crimes is not as rampant as to the United States ' arrest . Variations in race are very evident when blacks are involved

The Containment Theory proposed by Walter C . Reckless greatly relates to the evidence of social control that the racial threat of black in America and Africa varies . The theory explains the interaction between the internal and external containment control . Furthermore , for every person , the inner and the outer containments exist . Reckless have explained that of the two

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containments , internal containment is more essential than the outer containment simply because it is the one that forms the support system of the individual . Although the two containments are both important to safeguard a person from wrong doings , a weaker internal containment of an individual means that crime is likely to be committed . Unlike when the internal containment is stronger , an individual is refrained from doing a crime . In relation with the racial threat experienced by black Containment Theory helps to explain how blacks undergo the control of doing or not doing a crime . Blacks who have been involved in different crimes have lower or weaker inner containment . It was further explained by Reckless that inner containment is referred to the self components while the outer containment is referred to as the individual 's social environment . Inner containment is referred to the internal power of the...