The application of informal or formal responses through which a social circle promotes conforming conduct and discourages or punishes deviant conduct.
- Explanation. Social sanctioning ranges from approval, disapproval and avoidance to formal disciplinary measures or legal coercion. Not every sanction produces internalisation; it may also result only in outward conformity.
Occurs in Propositions
- Proposition 044 – Sanctioning maintains civilisation
- Proposition 045 – Conformity without internalisation
- Proposition 046 – Conditions of sanctioning influence
- Proposition 047 – Pathologisation legitimates exclusion
- Proposition 048 – Acceptance of pathologisation
- Proposition 064 – Change starts within existing civilisation
- Proposition 092 – The state as social circle
Last updated: 3 October 2026