How the family, education, religion, media, political and legal systems are used to maintain social control?

One can take an association between social order and social control. For society to survive there must be order which preserve, maintain and make obligatory ways of relating and behaving. Social control is simply all the mechanisms a society would position in place to ensure traditionalism and fulfillment of its members. 

The above social science factors guarantee that people live in peace and the rate of crimes are decreasing. This promenades that the society is move towards developed status. The Caribbean of all societies needs to have proper social control mechanisms ready to develop economically, socially and politically.

Socialization is the process of making a person to learn to live in terms of the expectations of the society and making him adapted to the society. Socialization is entirely based on social interactions. Creating an understanding regarding society and culture and personality development are important components in socialization process.

For instance, in Sri Lanka there was a very low percentage in tourism growth due to the crime situation within the country before 30 decades. This gave a negative effect because it broken down tourism and decreased foreign capital from accumulating within the economy.  

In order to conform, these standards and behave systematically societies have developed two methods of ensuring conformity in both a formal and informal approaches via the socialization process which refers to the enduring process of inheriting and disseminating  norms, customs  and providing individuals with skills and habits necessary for participating within the society.

Informal control relates to wide range of expectations and behaviors made by societies directed to extend actual behavior which are not imposed by the law. This strengthens the concept of socialization.

The primary agents of socialization enforce the informal rules of society; they are the family and our peer groups. The family is the most vital part of every individual's upbringing which has the power to influence an individual's self-concepts, emotions, attitudes, norms, values and standards of behavior of the wider society. A peer group is made up of people with related ages and statuses in society and sets the norms and values by which the individual must tolerate.   If we obey the rules we are praised and if we move away from these accepted values we are punished.

The secondary agencies of socialization are the work environment, education, mass media, and religion. Religion represents the decent principles of society which has its own set of norms, values that standardize the conduct of its members. The mass media provide a medium of communication and let individuals to learn and adopt new lifestyles and behaviors in society.

Formal control relates to the external permits make compulsory by the government to prevent the establishment of the disorder in society. The agencies of socialization teach us how to act in the way that others expect of us in society.