Citation

Kleck GD. Soc. Forces 1984; 63(2): 579-581.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1984, Social Forces Journal, Publisher University of North Carolina Press)

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Abstract

Book review: Social Control: Views from the Social Sciences. Jack P. Gibbs (1982) Sage.

The concept of social control is broad enough to have figured, in one form or another, in thinking in all of the social and behavioral sciences. Gibbs has gathered together 11 experts to define review and critique the concepts use of their special fields and forecast its future from the vantage point of each of those fields. Reflecting Gibbs' broad conceptualization, their topics range from behavior modification, governmental regulation of the economy, in law as a means of social control, to mass media information control in the prospects for political change in dictatorships.