Control’s Other Side. 4th Interdisciplinary Annual Seminar of the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology
We encounter forms of control in all realms of social life: internalized moral attitudes on the individual level; national or pre-national rules of law; governmental and non-governmental regulatory agencies attempting to contain potentially harmful developments. An observation of the process of how control is set up and maintained allows us to get a better understanding of the institutionalisation of social order. At the same time, the analysis of control may help to learn something about the so-ciocultural justifications, which enable such an order.