Religion as Social Control: Parsons and Foucault
In sociology and criminology, a consensus has emerged since the 1980s that there exist three basic forms of social control: informal, legal, and medical. However, Talcott Parsons developed a typology of social control that added a fourth type, namely religious control, which was needed to maintain c...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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[2020]
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Interdisciplinary journal of research on religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 16, Pages: 1-46 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Parsons, Talcott 1902-1979
/ Foucault, Michel 1926-1984
/ Religion
/ Social control
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RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AD Sociology of religion; religious policy ZB Sociology |
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