<P> Informal controls reward or punish acceptable or unacceptable behavior (i.e., deviance) and are varied from individual to individual, group to group, and society to society . For example, at a Women's Institute meeting, a disapproving look might convey the message that it is inappropriate to flirt with the minister . In a criminal gang, on the other hand, a stronger sanction applies in the case of someone threatening to inform to the police of illegal activity . </P> <P> Theorists such as Noam Chomsky have argued that systemic bias exists in the modern media . The marketing, advertising, and public relations industries have thus been said to utilize mass communications to aid the interests of certain political and business elites . Powerful ideological, economic and religious lobbyists have often used school systems and centralized electronic communications to influence public opinion . </P> <P> Social control developed together with civilization, as a rational measure against the uncontrollable forces of nature, which tribal organisations were at prey to, within archaic tribal societies . </P> <P> Rulers have legitimately used torture as a means of mind control as well as murder, imprisonment and exile to remove from public space anyone the state authorities deemed to be undesirable . </P>

What are the three levels of social control