The New Social Control: The Institutional Web, Normativity and the Social Bond

• Published in: Surveillance & Society Vol. 12; no. 3; pp. 468 - 470
• Main Author: Staples, William G
• Format: Book Review
• Language: English
• Published: Kingston Surveillance Studies Network 01.07.2014
• Subjects: Automation; Behavior; Cameras; Fear & phobias; Institutions; Social control; Social norms; Social relations

To his credit, he does not romanticize the gemeinschaft of the past. [...]I deeply appreciate his meticulous, micro-analysis of the most mundane socio- technical systems where his focus is on how these schemes actually operate, rather than simply making normative judgments about their existence. [.....