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Example sentences for "social control"

  • Surely Professor Davenport's contention is an impossible abstraction from the rich facts of social control.

  • At one stage we depend on religious values, the curse and the benediction of the church, as a tremendously vital power in social control; now we find other modes of social energy frequently more efficacious.

  • Perhaps too often its details are in charge of those lacking deep experience of life, and hence not able to interpret new laws of social control to parents of ancient ideals and backward social culture.

  • The law of 1719, in New York, that no person under twenty-one should be married without the written consent of parent or guardian was a step in the direction of social control.

  • It would seem the part of social wisdom, therefore, in this, as in all other matters of social control, to ask ourselves the question, What rule on the whole gives the best condition for the largest number of persons?

  • Similarly the adult is hedged about by social control.

  • Social control is exercised in large measure without the mailed fist.

  • The theory of prosperity, and the theory of value, are largely concerned with just this system of social control, by means of which value scales are altered, and by means of which altered values are brought into a new equilibrium.

  • The principle[17] thus appears to be that progress in catastrophe is a resultant of specific conditioning factors, some of which are subject to social control.

  • The chapter describing the shock also found the immediate reaction to have been a fairly general disintegration of social institutions, and of the usual methods of social control--in short, a dissolution of the customary.

  • Our final principle[178] thus appears to be that progress in catastrophe is a resultant of specific conditioning factors some of which are subject to social control.

  • Generally speaking, social control in the case of over-competing industries is limited to legislative enactments regarding conditions of employment and quality of goods.

  • We have dwelt at some length on the fact that a revolution occurs when a new crowd succeeds in displacing an old one in position of social control.

  • Society is made up of struggle groups, or organized crowds, each seeking the opportunity to make its catchwords realities and to establish itself in the position of social control.

  • Might it not be within the range of possibility that in the study of taboo we are groping with man through the first blind processes of social control?

  • This done, some type of social control must be found which will enable civilized societies to breed from their best instead of their worst stock.

  • And the more explicit and outward signs there are of the approval or scorn of others, the more will individual action be subject to social control.

  • Sidenote: Progress of social control] [Sidenote: True Aim of social control] It is true that many evidences point to an increase in social control for some time to come.

  • For a number of years the universal tendency, especially in America, has been toward what is called "Social Control", the idea being that more and more people should be controlled in an increasing number of ways.

  • The term "social control" is met everywhere now.

  • The pendulum is now swinging far this way as is evidenced by prohibition, the persistent campaign for Sunday laws, and the growing belief in social control as a means of changing and directing humanity.

  • The simplest type of social group in which we may observe "social control" is in a herd or a flock.

  • Kin-organization is replaced by political organization as the primary agency of social control.

  • A sure basis of authority resting upon something more stable than human will and the power of those who govern to impose their will for the time being was required also for the problem of social control in the Greek city-state.

  • It has sought to give us a complete and final picture of social control.

  • Paternalism seeks to achieve its aims, quickly and effectively, through the boss's whip of social control.

  • There is a swift and strong development of social control, urged by necessity.

  • Lowell wouldn't consider such a thing--the boy didn't ask for it and it wasn't authorized by Social Control.

  • Five minutes later the two doctors were furiously arguing over a very old man who had been sent by Social Control to have his eyesight strengthened.

  • Grumbling, the young man helped chart the optical nerves that had to be replaced and measure the new curve of the retinas ordered by Social Control.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    first class; later work; other friends; quite happy; routine work; social activity; social condition; social condition; social environment; social evil; social evolution; social hygiene; social legislation; social morality; social rank; social reform; social revolution; social science; social state; social status; social success; social values; social work; socialist state; stout resistance; total darkness