After completing Chapter 6, you should be able to:
- Describe the concept of social control and its purpose in different types of societies.
- Discuss the differences between ideological and direct intervention as sources of social control.
- Identify the agents or sources of ideological social control and describe how they operate to differentially influence the lives of various groups within the U.S.
- Identify the purpose of direct social control and how its agents target particular groups; describe the ways they differentially influence the social lives of various groups.
- Describe the implications of social control, particularly at the hands of the government.
- Describe the key differences between the repression of dissent before and after 9/11.
- Discuss eugenics as a method of social control and explain the role this technology plays in the world today.
- Discuss the implications of the use of technology as social control; particularly in the private sector.
