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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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Social Control

The Taming of New York's Washington Square, 2018
Social control includes all the negative actions taken or the words spoken in reaction to behaviour audiences consider wrongful, which attempt to terminate or reduce the enactment of deviant behaviour.
E. Goode
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Deviance And Social Control

, 2016
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M. Kluge
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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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Social Security and Social Control


Social security reform and the question of social control concepts of social control social control and the development of the social security system poverty and partitioning the development of the social security appeal tribunal - a case study the ...
Hartley Dean
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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   +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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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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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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The Social Control of Sexuality

Annual Review of Sociology, 1981
While the potential for sexual behavior is provided by human biology cross-cultural research has made it clear that sociocultural factors determine how that potential is expressed (Davenport 1977). Thus each society constraints "the age gender legal and kin relationships between sexual actors as well as setting limits on the sites of behavior and the ...
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