social control vs direction

direction vs social control

social control and direction both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
social control	Yes	No	No	No
direction	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, direction is a hyponym of social control; that is, direction is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than social control:

social control: control exerted (actively or passively) by group action
direction: the act of managing something

Other hyponyms of social control include auto limitation, sanction, population control, administration, governance, governing, government, government activity, enforcement, domination, acculturation, enculturation, socialisation, socialization, duty, obligation, responsibility, military control, occupation, management, deprivation, privation, appeasement, calming, communisation, communization, nationalisation, nationalization, denationalisation, denationalization, privatisation, privatization, detribalisation, detribalization, discrimination, favoritism, favouritism, patronage, militarisation, militarization, mobilisation, mobilization, demobilisation, demobilization, normalisation, normalization, standardisation, standardization, penalisation, penalization, penalty, punishment, corrections.

social control (noun)	direction (noun)
control exerted (actively or passively) by group action	the act of managing something
	the act of setting and holding a course
	a general course along which something has a tendency to develop
	the concentration of attention or energy on something
	something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action
	a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something
	a message describing how something is to be done
	a line leading to a place or point
	the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves

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