A Theory About Control
1st Edition
Published on 15. September 1994
Book
Hardback
391 pages
978-0-8133-2243-8 (ISBN)
Description
Moving beyond his 1989 book, "Control: Sociology's Central Notion", Jack Gibbs develops in this new book a theory of control in all its biological, technological, and human dimensions. His treatment goes beyond conventional ideas about social control to show why self-control and proximate control are essential to understanding human interaction. He also argues that thinking of control in terms of the counteraction of deviance is insufficient.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8133-2243-8 (9780813322438)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Preliminary considerations: claims and disclaimers; control, types of control, and power. The intrinsic part of the theory: control, supernaturalism, science, and education; interrelation among the three basic types of control; the remaining premises; recapitulation and derivation of thoerems. The theory's extrinsic part and one series of tests: the theory's extrinsic part; a series of tests. Final considerations: future work on the theory; the notion of control reconsidered.