Author : Herman Roodenburg
Release : 2004
Genre : History
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Social Control in Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Control in Europe write by Herman Roodenburg. This book was released on 2004. Social Control in Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This first volume of a two-volume collection of essays provides a comprehensive examination of the idea of social control in the history of Europe. The uniqueness of these volumes lies in two main areas. First, the contributors compare methods of social control on many levels, from police to shaming, church to guilds. Second, they look at these formal and informal institutions as two-way processes. Unlike many studies of social control in the past, the scholars here examine how individuals and groups that are being controlled necessarily participate in and shape the manner in which they are regulated. Hardly passive victims of discipline and control, these folks instead claimed agency in that process, accepting and resisting -- and thus molding -- the controls under which they functioned. The essays in this volume focus on the interplay of ecclesiastical institutions and the emerging states, examining discipline from a bottom-up perspective. Book jacket.