social control vs government

government vs social control

social control and government both are nouns.

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

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

social control: control exerted (actively or passively) by group action
government: the act of governing; exercising authority

Other hyponyms of social control include auto limitation, sanction, population control, administration, governance, governing, government activity, enforcement, domination, acculturation, enculturation, socialisation, socialization, duty, obligation, responsibility, military control, occupation, direction, 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)	government (noun)
control exerted (actively or passively) by group action	the act of governing; exercising authority
	(government) the system or form by which a community or other political unit is governed
	the study of government of states and other political units
	the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit

Difference between social control and government

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