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Medicalization and Social Control

Annual Review of Sociology, 1992
This essay examines the major conceptual issues concerning medicalization and social control, emphasizing studies published on the topic since 1980. Several issues are considered: the emergence, definition, contexts, process, degree, range, consequences, critiques, and future of medicalization and demedicalization.
P. Conrad
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When Extremists Become Violent: Examining the Association Between Social Control, Social Learning, and Engagement in Violent Extremism

Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 2019
This research examines the relationship between social control and social learning variables on involvement in violent vs. non-violent extremism. Using data from the Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS) database (n = 1,757),
Michael H. Becker
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Self-control, social learning theory, social bonds and binge drinking: Results from a national sample

Journal of Substance Use, 2019
Binge drinking is still an issue among adolescents. The current study applies the theories of low self-control, social learning theory, and social bond theory to adolescent binge drinking. The data for this study comes from the 2011 Monitoring the Future
Anthony G. Vito, Brian P. Schaefer, George E. Higgins, Catherine D. Marcum, Melissa L. Ricketts   +4 more
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Optimal Control of an Epidemic through Social Distancing

Social Science Research Network, 2020
We analyze how to optimally engage in social distancing (SD) in order to minimize the spread of an infectious disease. We identify conditions under which the optimal policy is single-peaked, i.e., first engages in increasingly more social distancing and ...
T. Kruse, P. Strack
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Sources of method bias in social science research and recommendations on how to control it.

Annual Review of Psychology, 2012
Despite the concern that has been expressed about potential method biases, and the pervasiveness of research settings with the potential to produce them, there is disagreement about whether they really are a problem for researchers in the behavioral ...
P. M. Podsakoff, Scott B. MacKenzie, Nathan P. Podsakoff   +2 more
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Control theory: a useful conceptual framework for personality-social, clinical, and health psychology.

Psychological bulletin, 1982
Control theory provides a model of self-regulati on that we believe is useful in the analysis of human behavior. As an illustration of the breadth of its applicability, we present the basic construct of control theory—the discrepancy-reducing feedback ...
C. Carver, M. Scheier
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Social Protest and Social Control

Social Problems, 1977
The impact of social control on political protestors is an important but neglected area of study. There are four major issues to consider: (1) who and what is controlled, (2) how control is attempted, (3) who controls, and (4) the effects of control on protest groups.
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Effortful control in early childhood: continuity and change, antecedents, and implications for social development.

Developmental Psychology, 2000
The course, antecedents, and implications for social development of effortful control were examined in this comprehensive longitudinal study. Behavioral multitask batteries and parental ratings assessed effortful control at 22 and 33 months (N = 106 ...
G. Kochanska, Kathleen T. Murray, Elena Harlan   +2 more
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The sense of control as a moderator of social class differences in health and well-being.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1998
The authors examined social class differences in 2 aspects of the sense of control (mastery and perceived constraints) in 3 national probability samples of men and women ages 25-75 years (N1 = 1,014; N2 = 1,195; N3 = 3,485).
M. Lachman, Suzanne L. Weaver
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Psychology and social control

Cognition, 1984
Abstract The history of social control applications of psychology and the likelihood of a future increase in their importance are assessed. The effects of military funding of psychological research and the social consequences of very widespread unemployment are specifically considered.
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