![]() Socialization refers to the lifelong process of inheriting, interpreting, and disseminating norms, customs, and ideologies.This is contrasted with the previous strategy of regulating bodies but not seeking complicity. Discipline is a power relation in which the subject is complicit. Michel Foucault argues that the eighteenth century introduced a new form of power: discipline.Ivan Nye argued that youth may be directly controlled through constraints imposed by parents, through limits on the opportunity for delinquency, and through parental rewards and punishments. Jackson Toby argued that individuals engaged in non-delinquent community activities felt as thought they had too much to lose by joining delinquent groups and, hence, had a “stake in conformity “.Through external means of control, individuals conform because an authority figure threatens sanctions if the individual disobeys.Internal means of control, such as an individual’s own sense of right and wrong, decrease the likelihood that one will deviate from social norms.Social control theory argues that relationships, commitments, values, and beliefs encourage conformity. ![]()
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