Social control refers generally to societal and political mechanisms or processes that regulate individual and group behavior, leading to conformity and compliance to the rules of a given society, state, or social group. Many mechanisms of social control are cross-cultural, if only in the control mechanisms used to prevent the establishment of chaos or anomie.[clarification needed] Some theorists, such as Émile Durkheim, refer to this form of control as regulation. Sociologists identify two basic forms of social controls:
While the concept of social control has been around since the formation of organized sociology, the meaning has been altered over time. Originally the concept simply referred to society’s ability to regulate itself. However, in the 1930’s, the term took on its more modern meaning of the individual’s conversion to conformity. Social control theory began to be studied as a separate field in the early 20th century. The means to enforce social control can be either formal or informal. Sociologist Edward A. Ross argued that belief systems exert a greater control on human behavior than laws imposed by government, no matter what form the beliefs take.
I don’t want to be apart of this country
I don’t want to see the dying corpses
Who are we to be to be to care about free
We go out and kill for oil
When our people still live amongst the poor
Our people suffer the most
Out in sand trenches they’re dying for oil
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Together the people someday, tired of bullshit and being mislead
Only our people can take off the blindfold
Only our people can see how this unfolds
While we make it through struggles day after day
Working our jobs and we’re being enslaved
Working for the unkind who persecutes us and fucks with our minds
I don’t want to be apart of this conflict
I don’t want to be apart of this bloodshed
Who are we to care about the free
We go out and kill for oil
When our people still live amongst the poor
Our people suffer the most
Left alone and in the dark
What you got when all you got is gone
What you seek is not there
What you seek is not out there
Now I don’t want to hear it
Together we can beat it
The unity we need it
It’s up to you complete it
The scars are true we bleed it
So it scars us so believe it
When you’re all alone and in the dark
and by yourself you and all you got
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Living the lie
When you’re living the lie
When you left in the dark
and the light blinds your eyes
You’re living the lie
When you’re living the lie
When you’re left in the dark
and your sight is gone from you
The life that you live
Is the price that you get
When it all does go away
you’re left with head, brain dead
My pain goes away
My mind is a blank
And this is how the world spins
until your final day
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You know you're living yea every single time.
you know you come around here but its all the same cry.
that ya wanna change your ways you wanna get help,
but everything you do you know you're leaving me in doubt now.
you're living lie yea you're living the lie you come around here
its all the same cry, the same cry, the same cry.
You know you sit there and you look at me
but everything I do you know it comes to me naturally.
There's nothing more I want in this world
than for us to just be at peace
but everything is leading me to believe,
that you care more about all your pride
and not how many people are gonna die.
If you listen for a minuet you will see that I'm right,
listen for minuet I know that I'm right.
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I don’t want to be like you
Apathy, greed be all that you see
I don’t want to be like you
Burn the flag on the t.v. screen
I don’t want to be like you
Wars and lies this is not a dream
I don’t want to be like you
Thousands dead spread the global hate
What's going on in our country I can not believe
seeing all those sobbing moms crying on the tv
You infest the rest with this political mess all over the news
don't you think this war on our country is enough abuse,
just tell me one thing what are we fighting for
is this for oil, money, and greed so your daddy loves more
tell me one thing what are we fighting for oil,
"PICK IT UP!", do you think I am troubled youth?
we share the blame but who are you,
I've been so fucked up now I can't see nothing,
FUCKEN TEEN, seventeen don't you know it's all a scene,
they won't stop now IT JUST WON'T STOP!
Everything to come along, anything to come about,
then the cops come, and they put a stop.
They won't play they will say fuck around
and you'll get laid down by the side walk,
cause that's our way.
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It's a bad trip in our minds,
It's a bad trip we don't care,
It's a bad trip in our lives,
It's just corruption everywhere,
It's our conscience it's not there,
because our lives bent it's just not fair,
It's just corruption in our lives.
These feeling everywhere "GO!"
Going put a stop to that image and acting,
slowly stunned, sober but drunk,
all these thoughts keep on reminding
they won't stop till I "PICK IT UP,PICK IT UP!."
Look at your and the way that your acting
you're not dumb but you're always hectic
It's the time now smoke the DRO,
[Chorus:]
If you think you got it
Then what the fuck do you expect you’re gonna do
When you’re caught up with regrets and all you think you got is you
Can you forgive them, this enemy
Good pain felt once
Good screams (scream louder)
This type of poison only fills you with desire
But the world will never change in the way it’s rearranging
So then it’s up to you
Once more time scream how you feel about it
[Chorus]
Bad things will come
Good things come after
This time of hate and pain just fuels you’re empty power
But things will never change in the way they’re rearranging
The change is up to you
Bring the change