Research Catalog

Title

A theory about control / Jack P. Gibbs.

Author

Gibbs, Jack P.

Publication

Boulder : Westview Press, 1994.

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Details

Description

xix, 389 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• Moving beyond his 1989 book, Control: Sociology's Central Notion, Jack Gibbs develops in this new book a comprehensive 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.
• Tests of Gibbs's control theory, based on data from sixty-six countries, add credence to his claim that control could be the central nation for sociology and perhaps for other social sciences.

Subject

• Sociology > Philosophy
• Social control
• Social Control, Formal
• Social control
• Sociology > Philosophy
• Soziale Kontrolle
• Sociale controle
• Beheersing

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-376) and indexes.

Contents

Foreword / James F. Short, Jr. -- 1. Claims and Disclaimers -- 2. Control, Types of Control, and Power -- 3. Control, Supernaturalism, Science, and Education -- 4. Interrelations Among the Three Basic Type of Control -- 5. The Remaining Premises -- 6. Recapitulation and Derivation of Theorems -- 7. The Theory's Extrinsic Part -- 8. A Series of Tests -- 9. Future Work on the Theory -- 10. The Notion of Control Reconsidered -- Appendix: A Formal Mode of Theory Construction for Sociology.

ISBN

• 081332243X
• 9780813322438

LCCN

94016170

OCLC

• ocm30319312
• 30319312
• SCSB-8790461

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library