Positive Social Control: These mechanisms involve
rewarding and encouraging those who abide by the
norms. It involves rewarding the model behavior. The
informal psychosocial reward mechanisms include
simple smiles, saying encouraging word, shaking hands,
thanking, showing appreciation, etc. Formal positive
social control mechanism may include giving awards,
promoting to a higher level of status, etc.
4.6. Chapter Summary
Social organization refers to the way people are socially
grouped in an enduring network of social interaction and
relationship. The appropriate living and working
environment of a person is group life. As a ship does not
function outside water, a human being as a social
animal does not live for any meaningful sustained period
of time in isolation from social group context. Whatever
we do, say, behave, or act gets its right meaning in the
context of a social group.