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Mass Communication and Society, 2007
This study applies theory from the sociology of professional control to the question, "What factors influence the power, or shifts in power, in the journalist/public relations practitioner dynamic?" A number of predictors of relative control over news coverage are assessed, including resources and proximity of source institutions, pluralism of power in
William B. Anderson, Wilson Lowrey
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This study applies theory from the sociology of professional control to the question, "What factors influence the power, or shifts in power, in the journalist/public relations practitioner dynamic?" A number of predictors of relative control over news coverage are assessed, including resources and proximity of source institutions, pluralism of power in
William B. Anderson, Wilson Lowrey
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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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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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Sociological Theory and Social Control
American Journal of Sociology, 1975In 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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Introduction: Control Systems Thinking in Sociological Theory
2006Sociological 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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Sociology as theory of social control
Socioloski godisnjak, 2012Starting 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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Class, Codes and Control. Volume 1: Theoretical Studies Towards a Sociology of Language
American Educational Research Journal, 1978Randall Collins, Basil Bernstein
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Purpose, Meaning, and Action: Control Systems Theories in Sociology
Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 2007openaire +2 more sources
Fifty Years of Criminology: From Sociological Theory to Political Control
The Pacific Sociological Review, 1979openaire +2 more sources