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• auto limitation go
  social control achieved as a manifestation of self-will or general consent
  
• sanction go
  a mechanism of social control for enforcing a society's standards
  
• population control go
  control over the growth of population
  
• administration, government, governing, governance, government activity go
  the act of governing
  
• enforcement go
  the act of enforcing
  
• domination go
  social control by dominating
  
• socialization, socialisation, acculturation, enculturation go
  the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture
  
• duty, responsibility, obligation go
  the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force
  
• occupation, military control go
  the control of a country by military forces of a foreign power
  
• direction, management go
  the act of managing something
  
• privation, deprivation go
  act of depriving someone of food or money or rights
  
• appeasement, calming go
  the act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of)
  
• nationalization, nationalisation, communization, communisation go
  changing something from private to state ownership or control
  
• denationalization, denationalisation, privatization, privatisation go
  changing something from state to private ownership or control
  
• detribalization, detribalisation go
  the act of causing tribal people to abandon their customs and adopt urban ways of living
  
• discrimination, favoritism, favouritism go
  unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice
  
• patronage go
  (politics) granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support
  
• mobilization, mobilisation, militarization, militarisation go
  act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency: "mobilization of the troops"
  
• demobilization, demobilisation go
  act of changing from a war basis to a peace basis including disbanding or discharging troops
  
• standardization, standardisation, normalization, normalisation go
  the imposition of standards or regulations
  
• punishment, penalty, penalization, penalisation go
  the act of punishing
  
• corrections go
  the social control of offenders through a system of imprisonment and rehabilitation and probation and parole