SOCIAL CONTROL AS A DEPENDENT VARIABLE**Reprinted with permission (and minor revision) from pages 1–36 in Toward a General Theory of Social Control, Volume 1: Fundamentals, edited by Donald Black. Orlando: Academic Press, 1984.I thank M. R Baumgartner, Marc Clinton, Mark Cooney, John Griffiths, Calvin Morrill, and Trevor Nagel for commenting on an earlier draft of this chapter.

1993 ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Black
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Control Volume ◽  
Academic Press ◽  
Donald Black ◽  
Minor Revision

scholarly journals Violating an Occupational Sex-Stereotype: Israeli Women Earning Engineering Degrees

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacobsen Chanoch ◽  
Vanki Tamar
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Simulation Model ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Informal Social Control ◽  
Recent Increase

The percentage of women engineering graduates in Israel has increased fourfold during the last two decades, but only a small percentage of Israeli women opt for these fields. We account for the current trend by a general theory of patterned deviance, viewing the recent increase of women's studying for engineering degrees as a case of nonconformity with a traditional norm. A simulation model of that theory reproduced 85.8% of the variance in the data on women engineering graduates between 1966 and 1987, indicating that the theory applies also in this case. The simulations show that it is becoming increasingly legitimate for women to study engineering and informal social control keeping women from enrolling in engineering has almost disappeared, but the internalized sex-stereotype still deters many women from taking such courses.

Research in Law, Deviance and Social Control. Volume 4

1985 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 98
Author(s):  
John Hagan ◽  
Steven Spitzer ◽  
Rita J. Simon
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Control Volume
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