📚 Social Control

Books with social control on their catalogue record, first published between 1901 and 2019, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject social control in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 2,299 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Social control	Edward Alsworth Ross	1959	11
	Psychopolitics	Byung-Chul Han	2014	11
	Social control	Edward Alsworth Ross	1901	10
	The Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care	Rose Weitz	1995	8
	So You've Been Publicly Shamed	Jon Ronson	2015	8
	Language and control	Roger Fowler	1979	7
	Pornography	Andrea Dworkin	1981	7
	Special education and social control	Julienne Ford	1982	7
	Crime and everyday life	Marcus Felson	1994	7
	Social Engineering	Christopher Hadnagy	2011	7
	Social Control	James J. Chriss	2012	7
	Transparenzgesellschaft	Byung-Chul Han	2012	7
	A theory about control	Jack P. Gibbs	1994	6
	Control balance	Charles R. Tittle	1995	6
	The sociology of health, illness, and health care	Rose Weitz	1996	6
	Cultures of control	Miriam R. Levin	2000	6
	Crime, social control and human rights	Stanley Cohen	2007	6
	Violence and social orders	Douglass C. North	2009	6
	Deviance and social control	Michael Inderbitzin	2012	6
	Policing Sex	Paul Johnson	2012	6
	New Elites	George Walden	2000	5
	Social control in Europe	CLIVE EMSLEY	2004	5
	Police Forces	Klaus Mladek	2007	5
	Narcocapitalism	De De Sutter	2017	5
	The Handbook of Social Control	Mathieu Deflem	2019	5
	Social control through law	Roscoe Pound	1942	4
	Deviance and control	Albert Kircidel Cohen	1966	4
	Power and discontent	William A. Gamson	1968	4
	The mark of Cain	S. Giora Shoham	1970	4
	Norms and human behavior	Arnold Birenbaum	1976	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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