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Control Theories in Sociology

Annual Review of Sociology, 2007
Sociologists use negative feedback loop systems to explain identity processes, interpersonal behavior, crowd behavior, organizational behavior, social relationships, and the behavior of political systems. Control system models help us to understand how actors enact social roles with enough stability to preserve institutional arrangements, while still ...
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Introduction: Control Systems Thinking in Sociological Theory

2006
Sociological control systems theories have emerged from the confluence of two of the major developments in twentieth century social and behavioral science: sociological theory and cybernetics. Over the past three decades, several groups of sociologists—working independently for the most part—have turned to cybernetic models, particularly negative ...
Thomas J. Fararo, Kent A. McClelland
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Sociological Theory and Social Control

American Journal of Sociology, 1975
In the origins of sociology, "social control" served as a central concept both for relating sociology to social philosophy and for analyzing total societies. In its classical sense, it referred to the capacity of a social group to regulate itself. The concept supplied a basis for integration of theory and research until the 1930s. While the traditional
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Sociology as theory of social control

Socioloski godisnjak, 2012
Starting from the discontinuity in the historical development of sociology, work analysis of naturalistic, sociologistic and symbolic habitus sociology, and shows how the idea of a healthy society is the fundamental spirit of the sociology of science.
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Critical Race Theory and Empirical Sociology

American Behavioral Scientist, 2021
Louise Seamster, VÍCTOR Ray, Michelle Christian   +2 more
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Errata: Sociological Theory and Social Control

American Journal of Sociology, 1976
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