Abstract
Social control is a widely recognized concept despite debate over its definition and boundaries. While in some research areas this would prove problematic, in the study of social movements, social control has a far more well‐defined set of meanings and can play an important conceptual role in uniting work on control processes. This entry discusses the various ways in which social control has been used in social movement research and related fields and how its conceptual utility in social movement scholarship might be much higher than in other areas. Its ability to incorporate broader forms of control than are presently examined in traditional research on repression is a chief conceptual advantage.
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