Examples of sanction in the following topics:
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- As opposed to forms of internal control, like norms and values, sociologists consider sanctions a form of external control.
- Sanctions are mechanisms of social control.
- Informal sanctions may include shame, ridicule, sarcasm, criticism, and disapproval.
- In extreme cases, sanctions may include social discrimination and exclusion.
- Authoritarian organizations and governments may rely on more directly aggressive sanctions.
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- Norms are social rules of behavior, and a sanction is a form of punishment against violation of different norms.
- The violation of social norms, or deviance, results in social sanction.
- Different degrees of violation result in different degrees of sanction.
- There are three main forms of social sanction for deviance: 1) legal sanction, 2) stigmatization, and 3) preference for one behavior over another.
- Informal deviance, or violation of unwritten, social rules of behavior, results in social sanction, or stigma.
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- In extreme cases sanctions may include social discrimination and exclusion.
- In extreme cases sanctions may include social discrimination and exclusion.
- Social control may also be enforced using formal sanctions.
- Formal sanctions may be used in a large group in which an individual can choose to ignore the sanctions of other individuals.
- In schools, formal sanctions may include detention, suspension, or other formal punishments.
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- Explicit norms are often enforced by formal sanctions.
- In this case, the formal sanction may be a fine or jail time.
- Implicit norms are usually enforced by informal sanctions.
- In this case, informal sanctions might include dirty looks or avoidance.
- Norms may be enforced through informal sanctions, such as derision, or formal sanctions, such as arrest.
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- Formal means of social control are the means of social control exercised by the government and other organizations who use law enforcement mechanisms and sanctions such as fines and imprisonment to enact social control.
- From a legal perspective, sanctions are penalties or other means of enforcement used to provide incentives for obedience with the law, or rules and regulations.
- Criminal sanctions can take the form of serious punishment, such as corporal or capital punishment, incarceration, or severe fines.
- Within the civil law context, sanctions are usually monetary fines.
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- External sanctions are enforced by the government to prevent chaos, violence, or anomie in society.
- Informal sanctions may include shame, ridicule, sarcasm, criticism, and disapproval, which can cause an individual to conform to the social norms of the society.
- In extreme cases, sanctions may include social discrimination, exclusion, and violence.
- Informal sanctions check 'deviant' behavior.
- An example of a negative sanction is depicted in a scene in 'The Wall,' a film by Pink Floyd.
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- In a criminal gang, on the other hand, a stronger sanction might apply in the case of someone threatening to inform to the police.
- Informal sanctions may include shame, ridicule, sarcasm, criticism, and disapproval.
- In extreme cases sanctions may include social discrimination and exclusion.
- An example of a negative sanction is seen in a scene from the Pink Floyd film The Wall, where the young protagonist is ridiculed and verbally abused by a high school teacher for writing poetry in a mathematics class.
- In a criminal gang, a stronger sanction applies in the case of someone threatening to inform to the police.
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- The local residents may find the urban newcomers strange or a little cold if they do not offer greetings, but they will probably not sanction them formally or informally.
- Likewise, in the city, residents may think newcomers from the country a bit odd if they give unsolicited greetings, but those greetings will probably not draw sanctions.
- Mores (pronounced more-rays) are also informal rules that are not written, but, when violated, result in severe punishments and social sanction upon the individuals, such as social and religious exclusions,.
- Their violation does not invite any punishment or sanctions, but may come with reprimands or warnings.
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- When children do not conform to the appropriate gender role, they may face negative sanctions such as being criticized or marginalized by their peers.
- Though many of these sanctions are informal, they can be quite severe.
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- Members take part in a culture even if each member's personal values do not entirely agree with some of the normative values sanctioned in the culture.