Structured Summary
Abstract
Control which is exerted by the more stable organizations of society, such as established institutions and the law. They are ordinarily embodied in definite codes, usually written.
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Broader headings
Narrower headings
- Animal Welfare
- Capital Punishment
- Coercion
- Credentialing
- Drug Legislation
- Facility Regulation and Control
- Government Regulation
- Human Rights
- Incarceration
- Involuntary Treatment
- Jurisprudence
- Law Enforcement
- Legislation as Topic
- Mandatory Programs
- Patient Advocacy
- Peer Review
- Policy Making
- Research Censorship
- Social Control Policies
- Universal Health Care
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Synonyms
8 entry terms
- Social Control, Formal
- Formal Social Controls
- Regulation
- Social Control
- Control, Social
- Controls, Social
- Regulations
- Social Controls
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Aspects Covered
2 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings classification, methods.
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Indexing Annotation
entry term REGULATION: not for regulation in biological processes
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History Note
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Previous Indexing
- Legislation (1966-1967)
- specific control (1966-1967)
- specific subject controlled (1966-1967)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Formal Social Control. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D012926. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D012926
- Formal Social Control. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q67120553