If an eccentric billionaire had volunteered to pay the tuition of the entire student body on the condition that drinking and drug use be completely eliminated. Knowing that cheating would not work and if anyone were to be drinking or have drug use take place then the offer would be null and void and everybody would go back to paying their own fees. Formal and informal controls could be used to prevent drinking and the use of drugs. Formal and informal controls are also known as social controls which is society’s restraint of norm-violating behavior (Barken, 2015, p. 155). There are two types of social control that can be used to help stop drinking and the use of drugs, those two types of social control are, formal control, and informal control.
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If a student were to be in their dorm rooms or come to class either drunk or high from drugs, then the dorm monitor or teacher could contact the campus police and inform them of the situation. After, the campus police would arrive, they could administer a breathalyzer and or drug test on the student to show evidence of the accusation. From then the campus police could either issue a campus level citation, or alert the police department, or both. If the police department if called, the police officer would charge the student with either a misdemeanor or felony depending on the severity of other situations that are involved. Formal control would be an effective way to have control of this situation and to provide a deterrence to for the other students that would try to break the rules. Informal control is society’s expressed norms and customs without stating any rules or written laws. Informal control is another form of social control that affects self-identity, self-worth, and self-esteem through loss of group approval or membership. Also, informal control brings shame, sarcasm, criticism, …show more content…
Formal control would have more ways and forms of punishments to have other students to deter from breaking the rules. Since informal control punishment is only socially effective, it doesn’t act as great of a deterrence to everyone as would the formal control punishments of having legal troubles. Also, the use of formal control would have outside agencies that would not be effected by reporting the rules that have been broken, so there would be no way of not having the punishment given to
If a student were to be in their dorm rooms or come to class either drunk or high from drugs, then the dorm monitor or teacher could contact the campus police and inform them of the situation. After, the campus police would arrive, they could administer a breathalyzer and or drug test on the student to show evidence of the accusation. From then the campus police could either issue a campus level citation, or alert the police department, or both. If the police department if called, the police officer would charge the student with either a misdemeanor or felony depending on the severity of other situations that are involved. Formal control would be an effective way to have control of this situation and to provide a deterrence to for the other students that would try to break the rules. Informal control is society’s expressed norms and customs without stating any rules or written laws. Informal control is another form of social control that affects self-identity, self-worth, and self-esteem through loss of group approval or membership. Also, informal control brings shame, sarcasm, criticism, …show more content…
Formal control would have more ways and forms of punishments to have other students to deter from breaking the rules. Since informal control punishment is only socially effective, it doesn’t act as great of a deterrence to everyone as would the formal control punishments of having legal troubles. Also, the use of formal control would have outside agencies that would not be effected by reporting the rules that have been broken, so there would be no way of not having the punishment given to