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Showing 1 to 20 of 345 for “"Social Control"”.
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On The Social Control Of Science
… lives bring about calls for more direct social control over scientific research. Defenders of the scientific tradition usually counter these calls by suggesting (a) that any external control would mean the end of scientific enterprise, and (b) that such control would prove impractical. …
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Revenue policing, social control, and neoliberalism
… originates. While several studies point to uncontrollable economic downturn to explain shifts in criminal justice institutions, many factors were left out when researchers came to these conclusions. This leaves relevant elements inadequately explored and limits the external validity of …
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Methadone maintenance : treatment as social control
Thesis. 1976. M.C.P.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Breastfeeding and the social control of women
… with other culturally defined duties and social activities, but setting an unattainable 'natural ideal' could contribute to women's feelings of guilt or failure when they compromise with bottle-feeding, or choose not to breastfeed at all.
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The public-interest concept : a study in social control
The government-business relationship, and the strategic position therein occupied by the public-interest concept, has long been of considerable interest to me. Because it is an ever-changing relationship, studies made and theories formulated thirty or forty years ago seem inadequate today. This …
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Narrative power : social control in ISLs and group homes
… and developmental disabilities as a tool of social control. Framing narratives, stories and accounts influencing the accepted version of events, are used by clients, staff people, supervisors and professionals to influence and control the behavior of people in this social world. Identity …
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Women, sexuality, and social control: A study in deviance
… of two major sociological theories of crime; Social Bond theory (Hirschi 1969) and Self-Control Theory (Gottfredson and Hirschi 1990). Examination of these theories as they apply to women is the second main component to the study. All-female data provides a new perspective from which to …
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Drinking-driving and social control: An analysis of peer intervention
… and (3) to establish some demographic and social psychological characteristics of those who do and do not intervene. Data used in discussing these issues are gathered from a questionnaire administered to elements of a population known for frequent drinking practices--college students. …
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Social control of technological innovations: the regulation of building construction.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1973. Ph.D.
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Game, Set, Watched: Governance, Social Control and Surveillance in Professional Tennis
… individually scrutinized in terms of governance, social control, and surveillance practices. This thesis presents an in-depth account of the major governing bodies of the professional tennis circuit with the aim of examining how they govern, control, constrain, and practice surveillance on tennis …
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ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKING: THE CHANGING SELF, IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL CONTROL
… one hundred and six respondents to explore how social networking websites alter the social self. Critical and symbolic interactionist sociological theory is used as a means to understand the data. This dissertation specifically concerns how social networking websites shape identity, result in a …
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Social Control and the Westboro Baptist Church: Fuel to the Fire?
The social control of protest can be carried out by a number of agents; among them are the police, legislators, organized countermovements, and the news media. This research examines how the tactics and strategies of the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) have been shaped and maintained through …
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The Influence of Social Control on The Concept of Accounting Objectivity
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-09T23:09:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6408452.pdf: 11902716 bytes, checksum: 59bd10e2a33d601881570af21eb553dc (MD5) Previous issue date: 1964
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A 'community criminology' : perceptions of crime and social control amongst Bradford Pakistanis
… in the specific reality of a study and the social actors, rather than created by her/him a priori, or by imposing universal categories created for other settings. Through collecting perceptions around crime ethnographically, the research revealed that Bradford Pakistanis' perceptions of …
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Mitigating delinquency through academic intervention: an empirical test of social control theory
… the GEAR UP program, a partial test of Hirschi’s social control theory (1969) was conducted to investigate the effect of academic performance and social bonds on problem behavior. Rarely tested in at-risk, minority student groups, the adolescents sampled in this research attended schools zoned for …
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Prison Space, Social Control and Relationships in a Post-Soviet Women’s Prison
This thesis attempts to capture, at the macro, meso and micro levels, the ideological rupture, which has emerged after the breakdown of the Soviet project in Latvia, and in particular its effect on penality and women’s imprisonment. This rupture has been conceptualized as a ‘clash of the titans’, …
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A discursive model of gendered social control: The case of battered women
A model of gendered social control is presented based on the concept of logic statements which undergird the two overarching discourses surrounding the social problem of domestic violence: a social service discourse and a feminist discourse. Two arguments are made. First, there will be a coherence …
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Little Brother is Watching and Recording You: Social Control in a Deviant Group
<p>Since the 1950s social control has mostly been explained from the counteraction of deviance perspective. In this research I examine social control in a broader context, what I call social control as the furtherance of action perspective. In order to accomplish this, I conducted a digital …
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