You Ain’t No Punk, You Punk

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel S. Traber
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Definition Of

Punk is unique in that it is the only subculture in which the absence of signifiers of the style and mindset can be twisted into actually representing the style and mindset: when a person says, “You don’t look punk,” the instant retort is “Well, isn’t that actually punk?” This opens an opportunity to reconsider punk’s semiotics, born from a postmodern sensibility, to see how well its signifiers “float.” The essay examines the phenomenon through the concept of doxa, the ideas and beliefs that become “taken for granted” in a community to then function as a tool of social control. A recent example of this is found in the anger expressed within the punk fan community concerning alt-right Trump supporters eagerly touting themselves as the “new punk.” The issue of deploying a closed definition of punk can then be extended to questioning systems of authenticity and ontology in relation to identity as a whole.

Delinquency and Social Policy: A Historical Perspective

1977 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Lerman
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Belief System ◽  
Delinquent Youth ◽  
American System ◽  
Correctional System ◽  
Definition Of

The American belief system has traditionally emphasized the ideals of liberty, justice for all, and freedom from arbitrary authority. An examination of our response to delinquent youth, from a historical perspective, reveals a profound discrepancy between these ideals and our societal practices. The issue of liberty is related to the traditional overreach of the A merican definition of delinquency. The issue of justice is related to the American failure to specify a correspondence between degrees of delinquency and degrees of correctional response. Restraint from arbitrary authority is related to the broad discretion that permits more youth to be detained than to be adjudicated in a court of law. An examination of recent data and trends indicates that the American system can be characterized more accurately as a juvenile social control system than as a justice or correctional system.

World Order or World Control?

1985 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 588-610
Author(s):  
Jan Marejko
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
World Order ◽  
Social Engineering ◽  
Political Order ◽  
Middle Ground ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
Cosmic Order ◽  
Control Order ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Universe

Political ideas today are different manifestations of a common paradigm which postulates a disenchanted universe allowing no middle ground between piecemeal social engineering and revolutionary transformation. We need a new definition of political order as opposed to disenchanted social control. Order consists of a harmony of autonomous parts while control is something imposed from outside. Control over a polity requires that the cosmos be stripped of symbols (disenchantment). Political order, by contrast, is always a reflection of cosmic order. If the universe is disenchanted, political power is arbitrary. There can be freedom only when control over the symbols of legitimacy is impossible.

The Use of Behavior Modification in Institutional Drug Programs: Does the End Justify the Means?

1983 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-113
Author(s):  
Chwee Lye Chng ◽  
Gordon Miur Giles
Keyword(s):  
Informed Consent ◽  
Drug Treatment ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Behavior Modification ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Treatment Programs ◽  
Institutional Treatment ◽  
Drug Treatment Programs ◽  
Definition Of

The purpose of this paper is two-fold: to present an overview of behavior modification, and to discuss ethical misgivings pertaining directly to the use of behavior modification in institutional drug treatment programs. Drug educators and health professionals, in their enthusiasm over the apparent effectiveness of this approach, have sometimes neglected to ask the all important question: Does the end justify the means? More specifically, the paper raises questions about the following issues vis-a-vis the use of behavior modification in institutional treatment programs: definition of problem, danger of social control, and informed consent. It concludes with a reexamination of aversive therapy and a plea for professionalism.

TRANSFORMING SOCIAL WORK IN ZIMBABWE FROM SOCIAL CONTROL TO SOCIAL CHANGE

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-219
Author(s):  
Tawanda Masuka
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Social Work Education ◽  
Third World ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Work Education

The quest for relevance of social work in Third world countries in the context of mounting socio-economic challenges has necessitated the need to consider transforming social work from social control to social change. Prominent social work academics and practitioners have argued in support of the need for such transformation. This article analyses this transition in the context of the new global definition of social work and how its various aspects can be applied in transforming social work education and practice in Zimbabwe. Key conclusions are that, social work curriculum be re-oriented toward the developmental social work thrust, advocacy and indigenous knowledge be integrated into social work practice.

“Kinda Like a Man and a Woman Thing”: The Construction and Reification of Gender Hegemony in a Women’s Prison

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 413-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison Gorga
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Social Construct ◽  
Global System ◽  
Masculinity And Femininity ◽  
Gender Regime ◽  
Gender Hierarchy ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Gender Practices ◽  
Women's Prison ◽  
Definition Of

This article examines how a hegemonic gender regime is constructed and maintained by persons with bodies marked as female. Using semistructured interviews with prisoners in a women’s prison, I demonstrate how a gender dichotomy is replicated among a population of primarily women in which certain styles of masculinity and femininity are posited as complimentary and situated within a gender hierarchy. Prisoners cocreated and maintained an ideal definition of masculinity—“studs”—that centered on status, resources, and heteronormative sexual patterns, whereas femininities—“femmes”—were subordinated and their gender practices devalued. Studs were subjected to greater levels of social control and were stigmatized for stepping out of the prescribed bounds of normative stud behavior. Although several respondents also contested or challenged hypermasculinities in the prison, this contestation often reified gender and sexual expectations for studs. The presence of such a gender regime in a women’s prison suggests that the global system of masculine dominance is an obstinate social construct.

Literacy and Ideology

1991 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 71-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elsa Auerbach
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Institutional Practices ◽  
Definable Set ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Ideological Perspective ◽  
Definition Of

The past decade has seen increasing acceptance of the perspective that there can be no disinterested, objective, and value-free definition of literacy: The way literacy is viewed and taught is always and inevitably ideological. All theories of literacy and all literacy pedagogies are framed in systems of values and beliefs which imply particular views of the social order and use literacy to position people socially. Even those views which paint literacy as a neutral, objectively definable set of skills are in fact rooted in a particular ideological perspective, and it is precisely because they obscure this orientation that they are most insidious. In fact, as Fairclough (1989) argues, one of the primary mechanisms of social control is the “naturalization” of institutional practices which legitimize and perpetuate existing power relations.

scholarly journals DETERMINATION OF THE LIMITS OF PUBLIC CONTROL IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION: CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL ANALYSIS

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-45
Author(s):  
Виталий Гончаров ◽  
Vitaliy Goncharov
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Public Control ◽  
Legal Method ◽  
Modeling Analysis ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Definition Of

This article is devoted to the study of one of the most important problems impeding the effective functioning of public control in the Russian Federation - the definition of its limits. In work the analysis of the limits of social control (spatial; time of implementation; the completeness of filling (according to his principles, purposes and tasks, forms, objects, and powers of the constituent entities and their amounts); the evaluation from the perspective of legality and legitimacy of the activity). The author has developed and justified measures to improve the current Russian legislation regulating the issues of public control. The article uses a number of methods of scientific research, in particular: analysis; synthesis; classification; comparison; formal-legal; method of legal modeling; analysis of theoretical and regulatory sources; legal; formal-logical.

scholarly journals The Machinic Temporality of Metadata

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio Celis
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Power Control ◽  
Temporal Dimension ◽  
Surplus Value ◽  
The Third ◽  
Attention Economy ◽  
Surplus Labour ◽  
Asymmetric Relation ◽  
Meta Information ◽  
Definition Of

In 1990 Deleuze introduced the hypothesis that disciplinary societies are gradually being replaced by a new logic of power: control. Accordingly, Matteo Pasquinelli has recently argued that we are moving towards societies of metadata, which correspond to a new stage of what Deleuze called control societies. Societies of metadata are characterised for the central role that meta-information acquires both as a source of surplus value and as an apparatus of social control. The aim of this article is to develop Pasquinelli’s thesis by examining the temporal scope of these emerging societies of metadata. In particular, this article employs Guattari’s distinction between human and machinic times. Through these two concepts, this article attempts to show how societies of metadata combine the two poles of capitalist power formations as identified by Deleuze and Guattari, i.e. social subjection and machinic enslavement. It begins by presenting the notion of metadata in order to identify some of the defining traits of contemporary capitalism. It then examines Berardi’s account of the temporality of the attention economy from the perspective of the asymmetric relation between cyber-time and human time. The third section challenges Berardi’s definition of the temporality of the attention economy by using Guattari’s notions of human and machinic times. Parts four and five fall back upon Deleuze and Guattari’s notions of machinic surplus labour and machinic enslavement, respectively. The concluding section tries to show that machinic and human times constitute two poles of contemporary power formations that articulate the temporal dimension of societies of metadata.

scholarly journals Editorial (English)

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
Elioenai Dornelles Alves ◽  
Maria Raquel Maia Gomes Pires
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Central Axis ◽  
Unique System ◽  
Sanitary Reform ◽  
Definition Of

The participation of the society, central axis of Brazilian’s Sanitary Reform, is present in the conception of health as citizen's right and State’s obligation, in the definition of the principles of universality, integrality and justness about health’s politics and in the institutionalization of Health’s Unique System decentralized and with social control.   However the meaning of social participation, guards a historicity with the context in which emerges acquiring new senses as they are putted in public debate about enlargement processes, democracy’s qualification and invigoration, essential presupposition to the participation.  

Toward a Definition of Orthodoxy: THE PATRICIAN SOUTH AND THE COMMON SCHOOLS

1966 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 412-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Antebellum South ◽  
Common Schools ◽  
The Common ◽  
Definition Of

Of the timeless debate over the aims and means of education, the author traces that portion that was carried on in the antebellum South. He places it in the context of Southern intellectual history and shows how the turn toward a preoccupation with orthodoxy and social control reflected "the society itself—its aspirations, its fears and, in fact, its very attitude toward knowledge itself."

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