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Social Control and Political Order

European Perspectives at the End of the Century
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This vibrant collection of essays offers a profound and timely assessment of issues surrounding the concept of social control, and indicates its significance for the new political orders developing in contemporary Europe. The contributors debate the issues relating to the future of social control from a range of perspectives. They outline its history and politics in both the Anglo-American sociology and the Hispanic world; they discuss the weaknesses of the concept, and assess its relevance for contemporary Europe.
Social Control - Colin Sumner The History and Politics of a Central Concept in Anglo-American Sociology The New Order in Spain and an Hispanic Perspective on the History and Meaning of Social Control - Roberto Bergalli State and Social Control [ac]a la fin de si[gr]ecle - Dario Melossi From the New World to the Constitution of the New Europe Controlling Social Panic - Massimo Pavarini Questions and Answers about Security in Italy at the End of the Millennium Social Control - Sebastian Scheerer and Henner Hess A Defence and Reformulation The Decline of Social Control and the Rise of Vocabularies of Struggle - Colin Sumner Unsolved Mysteries and Unforeseen Futures of Social Control - Roberto Bergalli
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