Custodial education does not have as its objective the education of youth but rather social control over them. It suppresses rather than… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject... Every scientific community is a society in the small,… — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
People are leaving trails everywhere they go; automated web crawlers tell you an awful lot about their social activities. The flow of… — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share Image
Religion is (a) a pre-scientific system of explanation and technology; (b) a source of meaning, direction and emotional expression in life; (c)… — Max More Copy Share Image
The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Saying mass incarceration is an abysmal failure makes sense, though, only if one assumes that the criminal justice system is designed to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“The body has been used as a form of social control through the ages and a mature economy can only achieve growth… — Orna Ross Copy Share Image
You see there are people who believe the function of the police is to fight crime, and that's not true, the function… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
“The process occurs in two stages. The first step is to grant law enforcement officials extraordinary discretion regarding whom to stop, search,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
“I think this mass surveillance by the NSA was never about terrorism: It's all about economic spying & social control. It's all… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
The most important step in emancipating oneself from social controls is the ability to find rewards in the events of each moment. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Our system of mass incarceration is better understood as a system of racial and social control than a system of crime prevention… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
“Money is a tool of control invented by the Archons and implemented by your banking families.” — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“As the historian Richard Gid Powers has noted, J. Edgar Hoover found in Progressivism an approach that reflected his own obsession with… — David Grann Copy Share Image
Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Parsons argued that medicine was a social institution that regulated social deviance through the provision of medical diagnoses for nonconforming behavior. Medicine… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
'Slavery by Another Name' is an important book that I think all Americans should read, about how, following the end of slavery,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Young people today are being robbed. Of their rights. Of their freedom. Of their dignity. Of their futures. The culprits? My generation… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Advertising,” he wrote, “now compares with such long-standing institutions as the school and the church in the magnitude of its social influence.… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
“But madness? That small remnant of altered consciousness, pure or in response to circumstances. Circumstances of life, even those of the body… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
U.S. domestic drug policy does not carry out its stated goals, and policymakers are well aware of that. If it isn't about… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“From a nonpatriarchal metaethical standpoint, however, Singer's and Regan's theoretical similarities are as significant as their differences. In particular, both Singer's utilitarian… — Brian Luke Copy Share Image
Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Free choice among a wide variety of goods and services… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The mere fact of leaving ultimate social control in the hands of the people has not guaranteed that men will be able… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
“Therapy entails the application of conceptual machinery to ensure that actual or potential deviants stay within the institutionalized definitions of reality, or,… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“The language of caste may well seem foreign or unfamiliar to some. Public discussions about racial caste in America are relatively rare.… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
