Social Control, Formal

"Social Control, Formal" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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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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Bar chart showing 4 publications over 4 distinct years, with a maximum of 1 publications in 1995 and 2000 and 2005 and 2019
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