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Diffuse Social Control

Diffuse Social Control is a form of informal social control characterized by decentralized, non-institutionalized mechanisms of social regulation that emerge spontaneously from everyday interactions and shared community norms rather than from formal authority structures.

484

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36.2K

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681

Authors

285

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2017–2026

40

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Publications

484

Medicine as an Institution of Social Control

Irving Kenneth Zola · The Sociological Review · 1972 · 1.7K citations

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The Spiral of Silence: Public Opinion-Our Social Skin.

Carroll J. Glynn, Elisabeth Noëlle-Neumann · Social Forces · 1986 · 1.4K citations

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Human Deviance, Social Problems, and Social Control.

John I. Kitsuse, Edwin M. Lemert · American Sociological Review · 1968 · 1.4K citations

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Texts and Practices: Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis

D. K. Davies, Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard, Malcolm Coulthard · The Modern Language Review · 1999 · 1.3K citations

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Culture as social control: Corporations, cults, and commitment.

Charles A. O’Reilly, Jennifer A. Chatman · 1996 · 897 citations

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Authors

681

  1. AV
    Allan V. Horwitz

    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, United States

    4 publications · 496 citations

    4

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  2. SC
    Stanley Cohen

    Vanderbilt University, United States

    4 publications · 1.4K citations

    4

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  3. EA
    Edward Alsworth Ross

    Stanford University, United States

    3 publications · 135 citations

    3

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  4. KS
    Karen S. Rook

    University of California, Irvine, United States

    3 publications · 769 citations

    3

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  5. AS
    Andrew Scull

    University of California San Diego, United States

    3 publications · 371 citations

    3

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Institutions

285

  1. Arizona State University

    Tempe, United States

    7 h-index

    8 publications

    1.5K citations

  2. University of California, Irvine

    Irvine, United States

    5 h-index

    5 publications

    317 citations

  3. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    223 citations

  4. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    4 h-index

    9 publications

    705 citations

  5. University of California, Santa Barbara

    Santa Barbara, United States

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    317 citations

  6. University of Manchester

    Manchester, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    184 citations

  7. University at Albany, State University of New York

    Albany, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    208 citations

  8. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    703 citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 23 publications · 1.7K citations

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  2. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews

    28 publications · 2K citations

    18

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  3. Social Forces

    SF · 14 publications · 2.1K citations

    13

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  4. The American Historical Review

    AHR · 10 publications · 824 citations

    10

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  5. Social Problems

    7 publications · 346 citations

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