Preventive Efforts Are The Key To Social Control, Here Are The Explanations And Characteristics

Preventive efforts to prevent inhaling air pollution. (Photo: Antara)

YOGYAKARTA - In general, preventive measures are a negative measure so that these bad things don't happen. As for the perspective of social control, preventive efforts are actions to prevent social violations.

Preventive action is very important because it can prevent us from fatal adverse effects.

Quoted from the Big Indonesian Dictionary, prevention is a property to prevent unwanted things from happening.

Meanwhile, in the context of social control efforts, preventive measures are prevention efforts before social conflict occurs. Quoted from the digilib.uinsby.ac.id site, preventive action is a social control effort that was carried out before deviant behavior.

Citing S Willis on the repo.iain.tulungagung.ac.id site, an action can be said to be a preventive measure if it has the following characteristics.

Several forms of preventive action include recommendations, prohibitions, advice, and orders. Quoted from the book Sociology Volume 2 for SMP and MTs Class VIII by the Mitra Guru Team, the forms of preventive actions were submitted more than once to form the expected habits.

Below are examples of preventive actions:

One form of preventive action is advice. As a child, you must have been advised parents not to commit delinquency or something that risks harming themselves or others. This advice is a preventive effort made by parents so that you do not violate the norms and values that apply in society.

The next example is religious education. Religious education is taught to children from an early age as an effort so that children do not violate religious norms and values when they grow up. It also aims to prevent social deviation.

The next example is the recommendation to wear a mask. During the pandemic, the government gave a recommendation and even required the public to use masks during activities in public places as a preventive measure to suppress the spread of the COVID-19 virus.

When boarding, passengers are asked to turn off their cellphones. This is because the signal emitting from the cellphone can affect the radar received by the plane, and endanger the lives of all passengers on the plane.

Preventive and curative actions are equally applied to social control purposes. However, curative action is carried out when violations or social deviations have been carried out.

Quoting Mulat Wigati Abdullah from the book Sociology for SMP and MTs VIII, curative action was taken to restore the situation as before the deviation. With another explanation, curative action is carried out to provide a deterrent effect.

Examples of curative action are giving punishment or sanctions to students who damage school facilities and infrastructure. The imposition of sanctions aims to prevent the destruction of school facilities and infrastructure from happening again at other times.

Such are the reviews regarding preventive efforts and their examples. Hopefully this information will be useful! Visit VOI.id to get other interesting information.