social control

Because it is, as Spade and Wilse say, a “tool of social control used by governments to regulate sexuality and family formation.”

The literature on the taming of animals, the education of juveniles and adults, and on social control belongs in this field.

Social control has been studied, but, in the wide extension that sociology has given to the term, it has not been defined.

Herbert Spencer, in his chapter on "Ceremonial Government," has defined social control from this more fundamental point of view.

How does social control in human society differ from that in animal society?

How do you distinguish between public opinion, advertising, and propaganda as means and forms of social control?